RE: [Paddlewise] Cutting National Weather Service Info?The Future

From: Steve Brown <steve_at_brown-web.net>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 14:33:35 -0700
First of all, I didn't see anywhere that marine forecasts would be
eliminated and turned over to accuweather.

Where did you read that?

Secondly, public safety announcements were not just excluded, the whole idea
was for them to get back to that basic function.

My understanding is that the raw sensor data will be provided, as it is now,
to the various weather providers. They don't make money just by passing
though information. They actually provide a service of sensor data post
processing, forecasting, and dissemination.

If you have information to the contrary, please share it and the source of
it, because I didn't come across what you are claiming in that article.

Maybe I missed it?????

Steve Brown


-----Original Message-----
....... This data will still be freely available to AccuWeather, but 
you will be blocked from accessing it.
........
This is not being sold as a money saving measure. It will not affect 
our taxes.  It just says that if during the course of predicting the 
next hurricane, the National Weather Service happens to notice that 
tomorrow is going to be a nice day, they can't tell us. They are still 
required to do the predicting, but they can only tell us what they 
learn if there is threatening weather approaching.


Nick Schade
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