Defense Department will stop providing crucial satellite weather data

NPR ^ | 06/28/2025 | Rebecca Hersher

[Dacula]

NOAA can use those DEI satellites to do their job. Money well spent on their part. s/

BTW - There are over two dozen satellites that have been doing the job for decades.

I remember having to go to the rooftop in San Antonio and report current conditions every 15 minutes.

[bigbob]

Since they still can’t tell you whether it’s going to rain tomorrow or not, this doesn’t sound like a big loss.

[kiryandil]

We’ze all gonna die. NPR sez so.

[Omnivore-Dan]

Billions in equipment, radar, satellites, personnel, and they still screw up on a regular basis.

[PeterPrinciple]

NOAA, which oversees the National Hurricane Center, says the loss of the Defense Department data will not lead to less-accurate hurricane forecasts this year. In a statement, NOAA communications director Kim Doster said, “NOAA’s data sources are fully capable of providing a complete suite of cutting-edge data and models that ensure the gold-standard weather forecasting the American people deserve.”

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so .......................................

but from the headline we are all going to die.

[frank ballenger]

TV forecasters like Stephanie Abrams can keep people abreast of the weather out front of any developments.

https://www.google.com/search?q=images+stephanie+abrams&sca_esv=9240a35597657e9a&udm=2&biw=1052&bih=506&ei=a3ZgaPuGJLTgp84Pu_uN8AY&ved=0ahUKEwi76My3npWOAxU08MkDHbt9A24Q4dUDCBE&oq=im

[Just mythoughts]

The ‘weather channel’ gods and goddess refuse to use the words ‘Gulf of America’..

There is no more a bunch of haughty progressive spouting climate change on the US airwaves ... That Jim Can’ttorrie and Stephanie Abrams along with the rest of the secondaries are stuck on stupid ...

They show a ‘google map’ with Gulf of America on their screen ... yet every last one of them refuse to say the words Gulf of America .... I wish we could literally ship every one of them to Mexico.... today!!!

[webheart]

It’s crucial! They won’t be able to forecast! (never mind that they have never been able to forecast before)

[Sacajaweau]

There are other sources. I kep haring..."The European Model" as a second source.

AND....we're 40 years down the road...things have changed.

[rlmorel]

I always remember the New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick saying in that nauseatingly funny deadpan emotionless voice:

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REPORTER: How much, if at all, do you start looking at potential weather forecast for Sunday and how that might affect the game plan or play calling?

BELICHICK: When you play in New England, you have to be ready for everything. I'd say based on the forecasts we've gotten so far this year, none of them have been even very close to what game conditions were. There was 100 percent chance of rain last week and the only water I saw was on the Gatorade table. You know, it is what it is. You know as well as I do, it could start one way and change during the game; we have to be ready for whatever it is with the forecast in this area two days before the game. I mean, I 'd bet a lot that they're wrong, just based on history because they re almost always wrong. An hour before the game, maybe. You might have something to work with there. I think if you start game planning for what the weather is going to be and you game plan wrong, you ve wasted a lot of time.

REPORTER: When is the latest you look at the forecast?

BELICHICK: When you walk out on the field. I mean. that's really when you know what it is. I mean, the rest of it is really just a bunch of hot air. We played down in Miami two years ago and there was a zero percent chance of rain - zero - and it rained. I'm just telling you. If I did my job the way they do theirs, I'd be here about a week.

REPORTER: You're not making any friends with meteorologists.

BELICHICK Look I'm not saying I could do it better than them. I m just saying they re wrong a lot. That's a fact. They're wrong a lot. We all make mistakes, I'm not being critical of them. I'm just saving don't think you can go based on that

[Does so]

The European hurricane prognostications appear more accurate...

[rlmorel]

I went to a presentation by the US Weather Service at the Boston Museum of Science back in 1995, and they predicted within four years, they would be able to accurately predict weather down to city-block sized areas.

I remember being very skeptical, and thinking “Really? That’s impressive, if true, but that I will believe when I see it!”

[Sacajaweau]

That's just direction and windspeed...(We actually do that now).

There's a missing factor in what they're saying...When will their prediction occur...the day before...or 10 minutes before...

[Flaming Conservative]

NOAA, which oversees the National Hurricane Center, says the loss of the Defense Department data will not lead to less-accurate hurricane forecasts this year. In a statement, NOAA communications director Kim Doster said, “NOAA’s data sources are fully capable of providing a complete suite of cutting-edge data and models that ensure the gold-standard weather forecasting the American people deserve.”

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IOW, much ado about nothing.

[stars & stripes forever]

Looks like we’ll have to rely on weather rocks. They’re more reiable.

[zeebee]

NOAA, which oversees the National Hurricane Center, says the loss of the Defense Department data will not lead to less-accurate hurricane forecasts ...”

They could have said that part first, but, no.

[sasquatch]

Fleet Numeric is at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey. Curt Collins used to run the Oceanography Dept.

[SomeCallMeTim]

Amazing. Isn’t it ? The dishonesty in media

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Here's an idea. NPR has radio stations all over the USA and Communist China. Ask the NPR stations to send a text message if the weather changes for the worse.