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Can't wait for our already mediocre ability to Forcast weather gets much worse.
Yeah it’s not like farmers, who produce food, and effect things like EGG PRICES rely on the weather to do their jobs…
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FYI: WeatherUnderground is basically crowdsourced using off-the-shelf weather stations you can put in your backyard, on top of public data from NASA, NOAA, ECAD, ESA, etc. The only downside is there aren't many civilians in the middle of the ocean, so hurricane tracking will be lacking if NASA and NOAA do get neutered.
For anyone wanting to contribute, here's a few popular stations:
Not discounting that (it's a cool project), but NOAA/NWS are the ones that issue the EAS severe weather alerts (when your phone/TV/radio goes all REEET REEEEET REEEET letting you know shit's getting real). Some severe weather you can plan for based on forecast (snow storms, some thunderstorms), others you need constant eyes on and as much warning as possible (tornadoes).
And tornado season is coming up, so....yeah, buckle up, Midwest.
Edit: Also, I feel your username lol.
That helps slightly but in the absence of radar, balloons, and satellite telemetry, it doesn't help accuracy of forecast beyond, "it might rain here in a few hours, it might not." Not much different in functional usefulness than looking at the trees to see if it's going to rain.
I have a watch with a barometric pressure sensor, it will alert me to potential maybe coming storms, but only potential maybe, not what direction, what intensity, what hail potential, what wind shear. All it knows is the air pressure is changing pretty fast. It is right maybe one in ten times. (My location tends to have very rapid weather changes, in general, however.)
And outside of that, ground stations don't really help to keep air traffic safely in the skies at all, lacking jet stream telemetry, which is calculated and estimated on a daily basis to figure out which sky highways flights should use. Not just passengers either, most commercial passenger airliners have a portion of their cargo hold sold to shipping (and make more money on that than the seats). USPS, other shipping companies all ship in cargo holds. Water transport would be affected as well of course, as well as rail and truck to a lesser degree due to floods/landslides/blizzards or random sideways Texas sandstorms blowing semi trucks over.
With flights, this means fuel estimates will be off, tailwind or headwind is stronger or weaker than predicted, you're landing at an alternate airport. This means more random turbulence and/or injuries mid-flight. More grounded flights, more flight delays. More potential for collision. Especially with neutered ATC in concert.
It is all interconnected, and all being arbitrarily destroyed without any thought into why it all exists.
Another goal of project 2025. Soon we'll have the privilege of paying more for a worse service, with the added bonus of the Nazi trump regime getting to lie about inconcenvient news like the sharpie bullshit with the hurricane some years ago.
It doesn't seem very efficient to cut staff and then force the remaining people to cover the labor gaps while simultaneously sifting through spam emails, but what do I know