Trump Administration Abruptly Terminates Critical Hurricane Forecasting Tool

[surfered]

https://michaelrlowry.substack.com/p/critical-hurricane-forecast-tool

Ruh roh!

[Ocelot II]

1. The enshittification of the United States proceeds...

[Lovie777]

2. Republicans the party of....

Suffering and death.

Well at least the wealthy will get their tax cuts again.

[Wicked Blue]

3. Maybe a nice unexpected Category 5 hurricane will obliterate Mar-a-Lardo

Surprise!

[Phoenix61]

4. WTAF!!! Beyond stupid. nt

[Hugin]

5. A good Sharpie in the hands of Drear Leader is all that's required.

( Just in case )

[stillcool]

6. Why, why, why?

I feel like a two-year old.

Microwave data such as those from the DoD Special Sensor Microwave Imager Sounder are essential to hurricane forecasts, not a nice-to-have. They’re used in a variety of critical applications, including estimating hurricane intensity through AI-driven neural networks like the Deep Multispectral INtensity of TCs estimator or DMINT. In the absence of hurricane hunters, DMINT has been shown to be one of the most crucial tools in a hurricane forecaster’s arsenal for estimating storm intensity, largely because of the microwave data it utilizes.

Though other microwave data will still be available to forecasters, the DoD weather satellites comprise half of all microwave instruments, which means data availability will be sliced in half, greatly increasing the odds of missing rapid intensification episodes, underestimating intensity, or misplacing the storm and degrading forecast accuracy.

[femmedem]

7. I know a 96-year-old man who walked home from school in the midst of Connecticut's 1938 hurricane.

He says, in an oral history interview, that there was no warning, and when the school closed, kids had to walk home, clambering over fallen trees in the wind and rain.

Is that where we're heading?

I live within a half mile of the coast, so this scares the crap out of me.

[Silent Type]

8. Apparently, this has been under consideration for years. It's not really that abrupt, although I'm sure it will have

some minor impact on weather forcasting. Don't think we'll wake up one morning with an unforcasted hurricane hitting shore. Nor will we get anything less than a week or more notice.

https://spacenews.com/a-race-against-time-to-replace-aging-military-weather-satellites/#:~:text=Down%20to%20four%20operational%20DMSPs,DMSP%20DISAGGREGATED

https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/wsf-m.htm#:~:text=WSF%2DM%20(Weather%20System%20Follow%2Don%20%2D%20Microwave)%20is,the%20microwave%20capabilities%20of%20the%20DMSP%20satellites.&text=This%20mission%20will%20improve%20weather%20forecasting%20over,measurements%20of%20the%20atmosphere%20and%20ocean%20surface.