U.S. Department of Defense announced Tuesday it would no longer process and deliver data essential to most hurricane forecasts
On Monday, the U.S. Department of Defense announced it would immediately stop ingesting, processing, and transmitting data essential to most hurricane forecasts.
The announcement was formalized on Tuesday when NOAA distributed a service change notice to all users, including the National Hurricane Center, that by next Monday, June 30th, they would no longer receive real-time microwave data collected aboard three weather satellites jointly run by NOAA and the U.S. Department of Defense.
The permanent discontinuation of data from the Special Sensor Microwave Imager Sounder (SSMIS) will severely impede and degrade hurricane forecasts for this season and beyond, affecting tens of millions of Americans who live along its hurricane-prone shorelines.
The news on Tuesday sent users across the weather and climate community – including those monitoring changes to sea ice extent in the polar regions – scrambling to understand the rationale behind the abrupt termination. Though not immediately clear why the real-time data was suddenly discontinued, the decision appears to have stemmed from Department of Defense security concerns.
Officials at the National Hurricane Center were also caught off guard by the announcement and are preparing their team for the loss of critical forecast data for the rest of the hurricane season.
Apparently hurricanes, which are the only outside force that regularly invades and obliterates American cities on American soil, costing billions in damages, multiple times a year…
… are not as important as these undisclosed “security concerns” that DoD somehow finds more important/immediate.
What’s the real story? Protecting Americans from hurricanes is too “woke” or something?
Probably the longstanding GOP goal of privatizing everything. To get public support for that, they first have to cripple the public service.
Oh nifty, Project 2025 again, that thing that Trump is totally not following to a T
Why must we live amongst such a vast swath of absolute babbling morons?
Isn’t Trump’s house in Florida?
One day we will all rejoice in the destruction of that shit hole.
We can only hope he’s in it when it goes
Not for long with no hurricane data.
Well, the data won’t change the fact that a hurricane is coming or not. Just Trump’s ability to react to said hurricane. His house would be gone with or without the data.
You know what?
Go ham. The south Atlantic coast and the gulf coast voted for this. Now comes the “find out” part. I am genuinely out of fucks to give. Enjoy your hurricanes and the non-response you’ll get from the now-gutted FEMA. See if I fucking care. Have fun machine-gunning your own foot.
Privatize the weather lmao
Just draw where you want it to go with a sharpie ezpz
including those monitoring changes to sea ice extent in the polar regions
Ah, there it is. Kicking climate change under the carpet again, I see.
Ding ding…we have a winner.
Anything that monitors for data that proves climate change is real is now WOKE and Trump wants to sweep it under the carpet
Who does this help???
AccuWeather… Big dollar doner gets what he paid for!
What makes you think this regime wants to help anyone?
Trump just wants to get rid of anything good in America. Keeping people safe is “woke”
This is beyond terrible.
scrambling to understand the rationale behind the abrupt termination
Stop trying to look for any rationale behind anything this administration does. There is none.
Any hurricane that comes by surprise will be nuked, not to worry.
Maybe a nuke filled with black sharpies.
Get ready for sharpie hurricane forecasting!
As ever, the Trump Regime is a colony of dumb and malicious assholes.
Trump is making himself the enemies of farmers and coastal communities alike. If I were an evil overlord, I would want my logistics to be rock solid.
🤦
Other than this being Putin Puppetry, I have no idea who would think this is good.
We’re castrating FEMA and NOAA. What is the benefit?
The benefit is that AccuWeather will now sell that same data and profit,big dollar presidential donations are paying off!
Can’t afford to rebuild? Zillow will take that pesky property of your hands for a fraction of the price it’s worth.
That’s the benefit. It’s a great idea honestly if your goal is to destroy the housing market for short term profits
Wait. We don’t have to sell underwater properties to Aquaman. We can sell everything to Zillow!?
The money saved could go to essential tax cuts for billionaires.
Fuck Florida? Fuck MAGA voters down south? Crash insurance and banking markets? Crash US dollar and raise inflation?
About project 2025:
The plan, spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation, says that the weather service should “fully commercialize its forecasting operations” and focus on providing data to private companies.
It also calls for a “review” of the work of the National Hurricane Center. It acknowledges that the center provides important public safety information, but also says its data should be presented “neutrally” rather than in a way that makes points about climate change.
Edit: here is the source of the quote, an article from September 2024 https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4907338-heritage-foundation-plan-weather-service/
Huh. Wow. So they actually did project this plan. And it really is about commercialization of weather forecasting and denying climate change. America is so deeply fucked from letting him get elected… ugh.
There is a plan, Trump is an idiot but a very useful idiot. If not him it would have been someone else.
always was
They think that if they don’t look at the hurricanes then they won’t make landfall.
It’s the covid testing strategy all over again
Officials were caught off guard? What do you mean? Was anybody watching the last election and reading project 2025? None of this is a shock.
Yeah they voted for him but they didn’t actually think he’d do those things.
I gues we shouldn’t have made fun of moron for thinking Georgia was Alabama. Disrupting climate change tracking is just an added bonus for super petty grudge holder. Prosecutorial immunity for elected officials was a terrible mistake.
