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I've seen this repeated many times but I have yet to see anyone mention, by name, which paid weather service is selling a feed with the same level of service an

• imglorp 1y ago
  Only NWS has a vast network of sensors: river gauges (with USGS), doppler radars, satellites, airport AOS automated observation systems, etc etc. to support the mission. Most of the privates are just repackaging their feeds and data. So if you kill NOAA they will have to start almost from scratch.
• dingnuts 1y ago
  In my experience, having used several paid weather APIs for hobby crap, the NWS ones are generally the worst in every way. They're slower, harder to query, the documentation is worse, and they have less data available because the others buy data from private weather stations and re bundle it in addition to pre processing and repackaging the Federal data into better formats on your behalf I say this as a NOAA lover; the government just isn't good at building APIs.
• _heimdall 1y ago
  Well you're describing the chicken and egg problem. If there is high demand for this data a company would fill that niche, but they would have no reason to until the free data is gone. I also think this chain of comments is a bit off the rails of my original point (maybe my fault). It honestly doesn't matter if there is pain to be felt by removing government services, we spend entirely too much money and any solution to that will hurt. If we are only willing to remove spending that hurts little to no one we might as well throw in the towel already, we'll never cut spending with that as a gate.