The abrupt cutoff of satellite data crucial for hurricane forecasting is delayed by one month, until July 31, according to a message posted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Monday.

The impending data loss from a Department of Defense weather satellite system was announced on June 25 and slated to take place “no later than” Monday, according to an earlier NOAA announcement.

The decision, which was initiated by the Defense Department, caused an uproar among meteorologists, public officials and the media in the midst of hurricane season. The fear is that the missing information could degrade the accuracy of hurricane forecasts. The move comes in the wake of steep personnel cuts at the National Weather Service and other parts of NOAA.

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[–] 1 point 1 year ago

To the cost to lives, business and welfare. Trump will be the saviour. Middle East being created domestically

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  • [–] 81 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    Next time a hurricane hits trump is ready with his sharpie.

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  • [–] 62 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    People will die. Property will be destroyed. This appears to be the plan.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    They want fewer poor Americans. Naturally, the best way to achieve this is to let them die.

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  • [–] 49 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    They're trying to get rid of the NWS because they want to privatize access to weather data.

    Imagine what it will be like when you have to pay to receive severe weather alerts. These bastards are just trying to make it (even more) fatal to be poor.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    I've said this before, first weather. Then GPS. That is going to suck. A lot of people probably don't remember when GPS was obfuscated. We could go back to that, or completely scrambled without a key.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Good things phones all work with Galieleo

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    Well about that. The FCC and the EU came to an agreement about use of Galileo gps.

    This means the opposite can be true, and they can require a push to revoke Galileo. Or the EU could revoke the gps as well. The license can effectively stop most people from having gps even Galileo. Yes you could avoid the update, try and use the signals anyways, but for the majority of people, a simple update and its gone.

    At least in the states anyways.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I am hoping that California and other blue states make a deal with the EU, or offer some form of mutual assistance. It is clear that the Facist States of America are going to be worthless trading partners, so the EU and the Blue States should do their own thing.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Well as of tomorrow, weather modification will be illegal in the state of Florida. As such, Democrats will be powerless to help in the state most likely to see a hurricane.

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago

    Get EARLY tornado warnings!!! Only $29.99 a month!!!

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago

    The covid technique? No data about the hurricanes = no hurricanes.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago

    It seems they only care about what affects the billionaires. They are not affected by weather I guess so screw the rest of us who aren't sheltered every second of our lives.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Isn't Mar A Lago literally in the path of hurricanes? How does this help anybody...

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    USA is full mask-off at home, citizens are still deer-in-the-headlights seven months later. We can only hope the legs bouncing and rolling beneath the undercarriage causes a stop.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Southeast U.S. can wave their heritage flags and listen to their Trumpy trout while everything they own washes away. Thank you for voting for the last 60 years to fuck yourself.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Don't forget, no FEMA funding to rebuild either.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    A red state has always been fucked by FEMA. I used to live in Florida and there were homes still destroyed from Irma in 2017. The GOP state government always stops FEMA when a Dem is president. Then when a GOP becomes president they don't want to use FEMA.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    they will blame the woke leftists dei for the incoming hurricanes

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    We can't see the hurricanes lalalalala!

    -Trump, probably.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    America was pretty great when the Great Galveston hurricane hit, so we need to recreate that scenario. Still the deadliest storm in U.S. history. Maybe that record can fall? Imagine Katrina, but with no evacuation.

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Funny thing is this will mostly affect the south. They voted for this shit so they get no sympathy from me.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Did you type your comment from a country that voted for this? Do you deserve sympathy from other countries? Or do you think every person in the south voted for this?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Do you deserve sympathy from other countries?

    No, the US doesn't deserve sympathy for this. Not until we actually start fighting back.

    The only people right now in the US that have any sympathy from me, as a USian are the people out on the streets, actively stopping ICE, or sabotaging federal equipment and processes.

    The rest of the country? Yeah, we'll learn our lesson eventually.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    I don't expect sympathy from other countries because I feel like america broadly deserves this as punishment for its apathy and I'm saying this as someone who voted Harris. Also most people in the south voted for this. You wanna go cry for those people then be my guest. Im done having sympathy for backwards idiots who hate everyone and everything around them and are actively trying to set us back as a society. As for the small percentage of people who live there who didnt vote for this I feel bad for them and hope they can get out. Other than that they can rot in their disaster ridden meth towns because thats what they voted for.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Haha get fucked republicunts.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Gunna have to detect hurricanes for when mango manchild starts abruptly selling off coastal properties

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    1930s didn't have satelite, America was great then, people segregated, supporting Nazis. Make America great again.

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  • But we always have money for shit like attacking Iran

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  • And red states take the brunt of hurricanes

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