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.
It’s silly to invest in all this expensive technology when you can just look out a window and draw these things with a sharpie.
what the actual chicken fried fuck?
did they do this because they don’t want data about climate change to exist? don’t these fuckwads know how much shipping companies rely on that information? not to mention the actual fucking navy
Navy still gets the data, NOAA is getting cut off.
i can’t fucking believe we have to deal with this toddler stomping his feet about his stupid wrong weather statement being contradicted that one time by an agency whose entire purpose for existence is studying and forecasting the weather
Truly clownworld
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This was originally in the DOGE plan. What took so long to process? I’ve been watching for news on this catastrophic decision.
You have to wonder why the administration’s trying to make Americans less safe. You don’t have to wonder that I know why, but you should ask him. Constantly. Loudly.
With this and FEMA being drawn down I’m guessing Trump wants to create cheap real estate for his rich friends to buy up. If you can’t rebuild you’ll move and take what you can get for the rubble you used to call home.
Killing adult Americans is part of the plan to get the population to trend younger again. However you can take out adult Americans and increase infant Americans will be taken advantage of
And at a high rate of fire.
All by themselves, weather forecasting satellites justify every dollar put into space programs. The lives saved are incalculable. We are squandering that benefit for no reason whatsoever.
Sure there is a reason.
Cause a big enough catastrophe and you can declare Martial Law.
In lieu of actual vital data, the DOD will be sending out tRump-branded black Sharpies.
Waiting, sadly, for GPS to go back to being obfuscated again. It’s bound to happen. Want GPS? You gotta pay.
Seems off topic, I know, but they did this (hurricane) by turning off satellite feeds
Luckily, the EU also has Galileo, and Russia has GLONASS (skeptical about the latter, but it exists).
Nearly every GPS-capable device has access to both of those as well as the US-based GPS.
Yeah, I considered mentioning that there are alternatives, but there was a review just in 2024 by the FCC to see if they were going to continue to allow Galileo to be recieved. And even then I think it’s only two channels.
Which tells me the FCC could determine it illegal and force an update, at least to commercial devices like cell phones.
Take this with a grain of salt, its from memory. I would be happy to have someone verify this.
Why don’t people realize Dear Leader (and his Sharpie) is all that’s required for ultimately accurate and divinely inspired hurricane forecasting??
mmm. comment about real estate prices in florida or on how presidential markers will be the new forecast. so many options.
For fucks sake, can this admin get any fucking dumber?
You sure you want to ask that?
Because having less knowledge always works out. Between this and the loss of FEMA, we should get even more “I didn’t vote for this”. Yes, you did. You just weren’t listening.
If you don’t know about the hurricane it can’t hurt you.
