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Government to keep sharing key satellite data for hurricane forecasting despite planned cutoff
The Department of Defense now says it will continue sharing key data collected by three sophisticated weather satellites that ...
Military now won't cut off satellite data used by hurricane forecasters, climate scientists
Microwave data from a trio of defense department satellites will continue flowing to NOAA to help inform sea ice research and ...
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Satellites crucial to hurricane forecasting were set to go dark. But feds have reversed course.
Louisiana meteorologists and weather experts criticized the decision to cut the satellites and joined others across the ...
Defense Department opts to not end satellite data for storm forecasts
The U.S. Defense Department has decided not to end the dispersal of key satellite weather data on Friday as planned. The ...
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Pentagon will keep sharing hurricane forecasting data
The DMSP was created in the 1960s to provide global weather and space information to the Defense Department, which has long ...
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Private Companies Step up to Gather Weather Data for NOAA as Staffing Cuts Hobble Agency Forecasting
WindBorne Systems is one of several companies launching balloons, drones, buoys and other devices to provide critical data to the beleaguered agency’s National Weather Service, but they can’t fill all ...
Hurricane Forecasters Keep Access to Threatened Defense Department Satellite Data
Satellite data that are useful for weather forecasting—and particularly crucial to monitoring hurricanes—will not be cut off by the Department of Defense at the end of the month as originally planned.
Military walks back plan to discontinue some weather data
The military is walking back its previously announced plans to discontinue some weather forecast data after public pushback. A new statement says that the Navy’s Fleet Numerical Meteorology ...
Pentagon reverses decision to cut off hurricane-tracking satellite data
After an initial plan to cut the data off in late June, the Pentagon extended that timeline to July 31 as forecasters raised concern that any loss of data could increase the risks rapidly intensifying ...