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It’s ok because a for profit organization will step up right? Right???? /s
Even if the void does get filled it’s some corpos fucking wet dream. Would be stupid expensive and probably completely inaccurate
AccuWeather has been begging and lobbying for this for years. They are poised to profit from this.
Which is ridiculous. Their business was basically repackaging what the government was providing for free. They think it's better business to roll out a bespoke weather forecasting system that costs millions of dollars to maintain?
Libertarians really don't understand that the government is what enables them to do business. If you have to pay for all that stuff yourself you're going to spend a multiple of what you're currently paying in taxes.
Wait what??? I've been using AccuWeather because I enjoyed the way they presented their weather information but knowing this I'm going to be switching immediately.
Fun fact: almost every news and radio outlet uses NWS forecasts.
Not sure how much longer that site will stay online.
Not sure how this changes things for me as a Canadian, but I'm curious to see what happens now in the states
Switch to what? Private companies aren't going to do what NOAA does.
I'm a Canadian so shrug it's something I'll have to look into I suppose. Ill try to not go out of my way to support AccuWeather specifically at least knowing that info about them.