silence7@slrpnk.net to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoThe MAGA Plan to End Free Weather Reports | Project 2025 would all but dissolve the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.www.theatlantic.comexternal-linkmessage-square37fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkThe MAGA Plan to End Free Weather Reports | Project 2025 would all but dissolve the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.www.theatlantic.comsilence7@slrpnk.net to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square37fedilinkfile-text
minus-squaretoiletobserver@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoWho do they think the local weather people get their data from? Where do they think weather says comes from?
minus-squarevortic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoThey know who it comes from. They want to change that answer from “free from NOAA” to “on a subscriber basis from private companies like AccuWeather”.
minus-squareEmptySlime@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoDoesn’t AccuWeather also depend on NOAA data? I was under the impression that they basically just parse the stuff that NOAA/NWS puts out and make people pay to have convenient access to it. Am I misremembering something?
minus-squareMagicalus@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoAccuWeather wants to buy the NOAA network, so they can have a monopoly
Who do they think the local weather people get their data from? Where do they think weather says comes from?
They know who it comes from. They want to change that answer from “free from NOAA” to “on a subscriber basis from private companies like AccuWeather”.
Doesn’t AccuWeather also depend on NOAA data? I was under the impression that they basically just parse the stuff that NOAA/NWS puts out and make people pay to have convenient access to it. Am I misremembering something?
AccuWeather wants to buy the NOAA network, so they can have a monopoly