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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 ...
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Hurricane cuts could create forecasting havoc
A local meteorologist recalled how good forecasts during Hurricane Hugo in 1989 saved lives. Back then, federal forecasts ...
Hurricane Science Was Great While It Lasted
The U.S. is hacking away at support for state-of-the-art forecasting.
We don’t want to fly blind. Keep funding hurricane hunters for Florida's sake | Opinion
Federal cuts to the National Weather Service and The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration could tamper with ...