U.S. Department of Defense announced Tuesday it would no longer process and deliver data essential to most hurricane forecasts
On Monday, the U.S. Department of Defense announced it would immediately stop ingesting, processing, and transmitting data essential to most hurricane forecasts.
The announcement was formalized on Tuesday when NOAA distributed a service change notice to all users, including the National Hurricane Center, that by next Monday, June 30th, they would no longer receive real-time microwave data collected aboard three weather satellites jointly run by NOAA and the U.S. Department of Defense.
The permanent discontinuation of data from the Special Sensor Microwave Imager Sounder (SSMIS) will severely impede and degrade hurricane forecasts for this season and beyond, affecting tens of millions of Americans who live along its hurricane-prone shorelines.
The news on Tuesday sent users across the weather and climate community – including those monitoring changes to sea ice extent in the polar regions – scrambling to understand the rationale behind the abrupt termination. Though not immediately clear why the real-time data was suddenly discontinued, the decision appears to have stemmed from Department of Defense security concerns.
Officials at the National Hurricane Center were also caught off guard by the announcement and are preparing their team for the loss of critical forecast data for the rest of the hurricane season.
Other than this being Putin Puppetry, I have no idea who would think this is good.
We’re castrating FEMA and NOAA. What is the benefit?
Can’t afford to rebuild? Zillow will take that pesky property of your hands for a fraction of the price it’s worth.
That’s the benefit. It’s a great idea honestly if your goal is to destroy the housing market for short term profits
Wait. We don’t have to sell underwater properties to Aquaman. We can sell everything to Zillow!?
The money saved could go to essential tax cuts for billionaires.
The benefit is that AccuWeather will now sell that same data and profit,big dollar presidential donations are paying off!
Fuck Florida? Fuck MAGA voters down south? Crash insurance and banking markets? Crash US dollar and raise inflation?
scrambling to understand the rationale behind the abrupt termination
Stop trying to look for any rationale behind anything this administration does. There is none.
It’s like people don’t like surprises anymore.
This was originally in the DOGE plan. What took so long to process? I’ve been watching for news on this catastrophic decision.
Officials were caught off guard? What do you mean? Was anybody watching the last election and reading project 2025? None of this is a shock.
Yeah they voted for him but they didn’t actually think he’d do those things.
You have to wonder why the administration’s trying to make Americans less safe. You don’t have to wonder that I know why, but you should ask him. Constantly. Loudly.
With this and FEMA being drawn down I’m guessing Trump wants to create cheap real estate for his rich friends to buy up. If you can’t rebuild you’ll move and take what you can get for the rubble you used to call home.
And at a high rate of fire.
Killing adult Americans is part of the plan to get the population to trend younger again. However you can take out adult Americans and increase infant Americans will be taken advantage of
If you don’t know about the hurricane it can’t hurt you.
including those monitoring changes to sea ice extent in the polar regions
Ah, there it is. Kicking climate change under the carpet again, I see.
Ding ding…we have a winner.
Anything that monitors for data that proves climate change is real is now WOKE and Trump wants to sweep it under the carpet
…In USA.
Man there should be separate community for USA news. Or at least a flair.
I’m sick of their news appearing everywhere. Technology, economy, health… all these communities usually have USA specific news on top.
I live in the US and I’m sick of us being in the news as well. But the fact is that the fall of America is big news.
Cool. Give us only broad strokes. No need to hear about every nitty-gritty like Big Balls leaving DOGE or anything.
You’re free to keep scrolling past articles about the US
That’s absolutely fair.
Use !world@lemmy.world rather than !news@lemmy.world if you don’t want US-specific news. That’s specifically what that community was created for (as well as its predecessor on Reddit, /r/worldnews…which eventually forked into /r/animetiddies due to Reddit drama, but that’s another story).
EDIT: Also, I was gonna say “if you want more news from elsewhere, you could also submit it”, but I see that a significant chunk of your recent submissions were…on US politics, so…
Did you miss the part about other communities as well?
mmm. comment about real estate prices in florida or on how presidential markers will be the new forecast. so many options.
Can some one send this mother fucker on his way already?
This is beyond terrible.
In lieu of actual vital data, the DOD will be sending out tRump-branded black Sharpies.
Welcome to “being poor is a crime”, rural white folk. wait till you lose your “medicaid that is totally not welfare” soon.
