Thanks for bringing this to light. I don't have a weather app installed on my phone specifically because NOAA doesn't publish one...now I know why. When I'm d

Thanks for bringing this to light. I don't have a weather app installed on my phone specifically because NOAA doesn't publish one...now I know why. When I'm driving to the office or on travel and want a snapshot of the current weather, I call ASOS for the relevant area and a bot on repeat tells me what conditions look like, e.g. try (650)827-8593 for San Francisco, or (404)762-1121 for Atlanta. It's a resource that really isn't known outside of the aviation industry, but it's there and publicly available. EDIT: Fat-fingered the number for SFO ASOS...corrected. EDIT^2: In the spirit of following cookie crumb trails, I did a quick search on congress.gov for "national weather service" and found this particularly damning piece of legislation introduced in the Senate[1]. Unlike the 2005 legislation cited in the article which fell flat on its face[2], this one looks to more systematically nerf the National Weather Service at taxpayer expense to the benefit of commercial interests. It definitely wasn't a political exaggeration that the NWS is under attack. [1] https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/570/text https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/570... [2] https://www.congress.gov/109/bills/s786/BILLS-109s786is.pdf https://www.congress.gov/109/bills/s786/BILLS-109s786is.pdf