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Yeah it'll be interesting if they privatize weather forecasting in the US. I'll be looking for European forecasts of US weather... It's handy info, but I'm not
by phkahler 2y ago
Yeah it'll be interesting if they privatize weather forecasting in the US. I'll be looking for European forecasts of US weather...
It's handy info, but I'm not gonna subscribe to see if I need a coat or umbrella.
- mrtesthah 2y agoAll private/paid weather forecasts still rely on NOAA’s infrastructure, so we may not have any reliable forecasting anymore.
- 3eb7988a1663 2y agoThat has been touted around before, but what does the military do? I assume they are extremely aware of their supply chain and would not want to source weather from a commercial entity. Will NORAD start doing clandestine weather modelling to be able to plan troop/ship movements?
- msy 2y agoThey’re briefing Elon Musk on China war plans, I don’t think the current leadership will care much where they source weather data as long as it aligns with the current ideological purity purge.
- techright75 2y agoThere's no proof he was part of any briefing, and pretty much everyone has denied this has happened. You need to diversify your news sources beyond the ones that confirm your beliefs, truthful or not.
- reaperducer 2y agoThere's no proof he was part of any briefing I guess you missed the video of him going into the Pentagon, and then coming out saying he had a great meeting. It was all over the "legacy" media that the current legacy president doesn't watch or obsess over.
- msy 2y agoIf you genuinely believe the real problem here is reporting, not that it's unclear (and had to be denied by the President himself) whether a private citizen with massive and well documented conflicts of interest and who doesn't hold a TS clearance was briefed on some of the nations most sensitive military planning I'd suggest I'm not the one with an information consumption and evaluation issue.
- __egb__ 2y agoThe Navy already does forecasting for the DoD. They have their own computing facility (called Fleet Numerical) in California and run their own models.
- tomjakubowski 2y agoCurious if they use NWS weather station data or if they collect their own.
- jandrewrogers 2y agoIt is pretty much an independent system. There are only a handful of organizations on the planet operating an independent global weather model. For historical reasons the US operates two of them. A good argument can be made that the European model is better than either, so it might make sense for the US to combine some of those global weather model resources.
- mistrial9 2y agounless "all private except certain secure friends" is not in the spirit of US Federal Science?
- mistrial9 2y agoIsn't it true that open methods beat closed expensive methods many times.. in the case of weather prediction, it is trivial to benchmark predictions.
- alfiedotwtf 2y agoFor how long? Like seriously, how long until that department/company/office is shut down
- dataviz1000 2y agoI was a private yacht chef for 6 years. I would always source weather from https://www.metoc.navy.mil/ https://www.metoc.navy.mil/ and plan meals around it. I'm pretty good with a Japanese chef's knife in 8 foot seas.
- hallway_monitor 2y agoHis cuts on dry land: ~~~
- genewitch 2y agoSome Mel Brooks level humor here
- myko 2y agoAir Force / Space Force already employ meteorologists for their own stuff, I'm sure the US military will have accurate information. It just will not get to the public until it has been properly sharpied.
- saynay 2y agoThere is no way private weather forecasting will be profitable enough to keep the required equipment running, at least at the quality we have had.
- Larrikin 2y agoBut people will make money selling the data, so who cares if it's worse.
- epistasis 2y agoI think the idea is that a private company will take the results of government produced meteorology and then have full rights for distribution. At least, that's the plan of one of the current private companies that does this, they want to be the monopoly.
- treyd 2y agoIt's insane. I don't understand what could possibly be the justification there.
- lotsofpulp 2y agoMore money and power for the decision makers.
- epistasis 2y agoThey gave a bunch of money to Trump, and bully everybody else that challenges them, so it makes it the right thing to do.
- Auracle 2y agoSeems pretty clear to me - Trump is trying to cut costs for our government. He sees we’re spending all that money on forecasting and data that everyone else uses for free, and gets paid for it. Therefore, that data is worth something and the government should get a piece of the pie. I don’t necessarily agree but it’s somewhat logical.
- thegreatpeter 2y agoWhy would "they" privatize the weather? How dramatic.
- ben_w 2y agoTo save taxpayer money or for idiological reasons, like everything else that's ever been privatised in the history of the term anywhere on the planet.
- haliskerbas 2y agoTo add to this “they” in this context refers to “the current officials in power”
- gausswho 2y agoTrump's choice for the head of NOAA is Barry Lee Myers, the 81 year old CEO of Accuweather who, with no scientific background, has been lobbying for years to dissolve the National Weather Service. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Lee_Myers https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Lee_Myers
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- steve_adams_86 2y agoWhy wouldn’t they?
- zeagle 2y agoI'm surprised they aren't privatizing GPS actually... seems to be a similarly helpful public service. While it does help subsidize future Korean airliners... it unfairly harms aircraft manufacturers. /s
- collingreen 2y agoYou're joking but this is the current way some folks in power discuss government services
- reaperducer 2y agoYeah it'll be interesting if they privatize weather forecasting in the US FWIW, there is already a massive industry of private weather forecasting. I know personally, or have met, at least six fully trained meteorologists who don't work for the government. Most are in the oil industry, but one is in aquaculture, and another in shipping. Most big energy, aviation, and logistics companies employ meteorologists. Probably other industries, too. That said, the loss of the NWS would be a national tragedy, and one of the worst mistakes in American government history.
- dullcrisp 2y agoOne of the worst mistakes so far.