The abrupt cutoff of satellite data crucial for hurricane forecasting is delayed by one month, until July 31, according to a message posted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Monday.

The impending data loss from a Department of Defense weather satellite system was announced on June 25 and slated to take place “no later than” Monday, according to an earlier NOAA announcement.

The decision, which was initiated by the Defense Department, caused an uproar among meteorologists, public officials and the media in the midst of hurricane season. The fear is that the missing information could degrade the accuracy of hurricane forecasts. The move comes in the wake of steep personnel cuts at the National Weather Service and other parts of NOAA.

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    Funny thing is this will mostly affect the south. They voted for this shit so they get no sympathy from me.

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      Did you type your comment from a country that voted for this? Do you deserve sympathy from other countries? Or do you think every person in the south voted for this?

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        I don’t expect sympathy from other countries because I feel like america broadly deserves this as punishment for its apathy and I’m saying this as someone who voted Harris. Also most people in the south voted for this. You wanna go cry for those people then be my guest. Im done having sympathy for backwards idiots who hate everyone and everything around them and are actively trying to set us back as a society. As for the small percentage of people who live there who didnt vote for this I feel bad for them and hope they can get out. Other than that they can rot in their disaster ridden meth towns because thats what they voted for.

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      They want fewer poor Americans. Naturally, the best way to achieve this is to let them die.

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    They’re trying to get rid of the NWS because they want to privatize access to weather data.

    Imagine what it will be like when you have to pay to receive severe weather alerts. These bastards are just trying to make it (even more) fatal to be poor.

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      I imagine it will be a lot like pirating live streamed TV, but with weather apps.

      Probably a good idea to have 2 in case 1 gets shut down or raided.

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      I’ve said this before, first weather. Then GPS. That is going to suck. A lot of people probably don’t remember when GPS was obfuscated. We could go back to that, or completely scrambled without a key.

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          Well about that. The FCC and the EU came to an agreement about use of Galileo gps.

          This means the opposite can be true, and they can require a push to revoke Galileo. Or the EU could revoke the gps as well. The license can effectively stop most people from having gps even Galileo. Yes you could avoid the update, try and use the signals anyways, but for the majority of people, a simple update and its gone.

          At least in the states anyways.

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    It seems they only care about what affects the billionaires. They are not affected by weather I guess so screw the rest of us who aren’t sheltered every second of our lives.

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    USA is full mask-off at home, citizens are still deer-in-the-headlights seven months later. We can only hope the legs bouncing and rolling beneath the undercarriage causes a stop.

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      It won’t matter to him. If his property gets hit then he’ll just declare that specific spot a disaster area and have what’s left of FEMA give him millions of dollars to rebuild and upgrade the whole place. It’d be like the ultimate insurance scam.

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    America was pretty great when the Great Galveston hurricane hit, so we need to recreate that scenario. Still the deadliest storm in U.S. history. Maybe that record can fall? Imagine Katrina, but with no evacuation.