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.
Since they still can’t tell you whether it’s going to rain tomorrow or not, this doesn’t sound like a big loss.
We’ze all gonna die. NPR sez so.
Billions in equipment, radar, satellites, personnel, and they still screw up on a regular basis.
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.”
but from the headline we are all going to die.
TV forecasters like Stephanie Abrams can keep people abreast of the weather out front of any developments.
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!!!
It’s crucial! They won’t be able to forecast! (never mind that they have never been able to forecast before)
AND....we're 40 years down the road...things have changed.
The European hurricane prognostications appear more accurate...
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.”
IOW, much ado about nothing.
Looks like we’ll have to rely on weather rocks. They’re more reiable.
Fleet Numeric is at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey. Curt Collins used to run the Oceanography Dept.
Taxpayer-funded information provided to weather forecasters whose work ends up weather websites with annoying ads?
Coincidentally there’s been a rash of unexplained weather-related phenomena lately — laser-like streaks across the sky, loud booming noises that aren’t thunder or sonic booms, etc. And they aren’t just anecdotal or blurry fotos on a cellphone. These phenomena have been observed (and recorded) via radar and satellite imagery. There’s some weird, obviously manmade stuff going on in the atmosphere lately, and too many amateur analysts are seeing it and — worse — sharing it. Could this be why the DoD wants to shut off access to its satellites?
There is still NOAA and no shortage of private satellites. They will be just fine. They probably just sold the Navy data to China anyway.
This weather satellite fight between the USAF and NASA has been going on since the early 1960’s. NASA is given the lead on satellite development but never delivers so the USAF does it. It has only gotten worse since then.
What was a 1 meter cubed small and light satellite has become a 23 foot long 3 ton monster under NASA demands.
NOAA should just ask SpaceX to use their Starlink sat bus since it’s in mass production already. It has laser links to neighboring birds too so no ground stations needed except one at homebase. Those huge phased arrays make for fine passive microwave radiometers and you could even do active SAR radar with them to see not only rain,hail,but also using backscatter water vapor content all with Doppler motion tracking. It wouldn’t be hard to tack on visible, IR and UV wideview and narrow view imagers on the edges of the bus folded down for stack and pack launch.
Falcon could yeet 26 at a time into polar orbit from vandy. Then use the ion thrusters to shift the orbits into a continuous train of them one after another you would get coverage every 3.5 minutes in a 90 minute orbital slot.
Send up 10 falcon 9 flocks you would have 260 birds in polar orbits that could see in real time the entire planets atmosphere pole to pole. SpaceX could get this done in 6 months from the go word.