The Trump administration has abruptly and without stated reason decreed it will stop processing data vital to early hurricane detection, which particularly affects states along the Gulf Coast, a region that has voted overwhelmingly for Donald Trump in the last three presidential elections.
When asked for comment on this change, President Trump replied:
"Now that I finally don't have to worry about being reelected, let me be honest. I hate Republican voters. I despise them. They are subhuman trash not worthy to wipe my ass. It takes everything in me not to vomit when I do rallies and have to look at their fat, disgusting, inbred faces. I'm heading back to the White House now to fire up the weather machine and try to kill as many of them as I can. Maybe the rain will wash some of their stink off the country. Fuck. Them." He then spat on the ground and walked away laughing loudly.

https://www.local10.com/weather/hurricane/2025/06/26/critical-hurricane-forecast-tool-abruptly-terminated/

>On Monday, the U.S. Department of Defense announced it would immediately stop ingesting, processing, and transmitting data essential to most hurricane forecasts.

>The announcement was formalized on Tuesday when NOAA distributed a service change notice to all users, including the National Hurricane Center, that by next Monday, June 30th, they would no longer receive real-time microwave data collected aboard three weather satellites jointly run by NOAA and the U.S. Department of Defense.

>The permanent discontinuation of data from the Special Sensor Microwave Imager Sounder (SSMIS) will severely impede and degrade hurricane forecasts for this season and beyond, affecting tens of millions of Americans who live along its hurricane-prone shorelines.

>The news on Tuesday sent users across the weather and climate community – including those monitoring changes to sea ice extent in the polar regions – scrambling to understand the rationale behind the abrupt termination. Though not immediately clear why the real-time data was suddenly discontinued, the decision appears to have stemmed from Department of Defense security concerns.

>Officials at the National Hurricane Center were also caught off guard by the announcement and are preparing their team for the loss of critical forecast data for the rest of the hurricane season.

>Since hurricanes form and strengthen over the open water where direct observations are scarce or nonexistent, forecasters rely largely on data remotely gathered from satellites. While hurricane hunting airplanes help to close that gap, they’re only available for about 1 in every 3 hurricane forecasts in the Atlantic and virtually none – except for a handful of stronger storm exceptions – in the Pacific.

>Traditional weather satellites are helpful, but they don’t allow forecasters to peer beneath the clouds to understand important structural changes that can tip them off to episodes of rapid intensification. At night especially, geosynchronous satellites most familiar to the general public can fail forecasters, often missing important details only seen by visible satellite or critical microwave pictures from polar-orbiting satellites that provide MRI-like scans to forecasters every few hours.

>The Defense Meteorological Satellite Program and its constellation of three weather satellites provide roughly half of all microwave satellite scans to forecasters. Those go dark beginning next Monday.

>“Their loss is a big deal,” says retired National Hurricane Center branch chief James Franklin, who oversaw all NHC hurricane forecasters until his retirement in 2017. “Without this imagery, there will be increased risk of a ‘sunrise surprise,’ the realization from first-light images that a system had become much better organized overnight, but it wasn’t recognized because structural details are so hard to discern from [infrared satellite].”

>Microwave data are also used to help “fix” or position the center of storms, a task not always easily or accurately accomplished using visible or enhanced satellite pictures. As the butterfly effect demonstrates, small errors in the initial positioning of a storm can lead to outsized forecast errors in four or five days.

>“For weaker systems, [it’s] increased initial position error (in the tens of miles) that will cascade into poorer track forecasts,” warns Franklin.

>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.

>While the Department of Defense did successfully launched another weather satellite known as the Weather System Follow-on Microwave (WSF-M) in April 2024, that data isn’t currently available to forecasters and it’s not clear if or when data access will be permitted.

Climate change denial in support of capitalism...nothing to see here, folks

>>1416297 (OP)
Is this revenge for the sharpie thing? I don't understand why he would do this.

>>1416341
Most likely? People who want land to be fresh and ready for development convincing him "Climate change is a hoax, we overprepare for these things" so the next time a hurricane smashes into florida or some shit they can buy up a bunch of land for cheap.

>>1416341
>I don't understand why he would do this
Why would he not? What's in it for him to keep giving this info out?

>>1416342
Disgusting if true. But don't forget that dismantling NOAA was always part of Project2025.
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4907338-heritage-foundation-plan-weather-service/
The thinktank wants to end the concept of government weather forecasting and outsource it to his good friends at Accuweather, which is owned by climate denialists. Trump actually tried to do it in his first term but got too much pushback.
https://www.reuters.com/article/world/white-house-nominates-accuweather-ceo-to-head-climate-agency-idUSKBN1CH0AA/

>>1416343
I guess it's a government service for the greater good, like delivering the mail or forecasting earthquakes? Sometimes the government needs to do things which the free market can't or won't.

>>1416345
this is what happens when the free internet sustains bombardments of tactical retardation, a reality we will only see more of in the future

>>1416347
If anything it means even more brain drain away from government work. Never has there been such an anti-science, anti-intellectual president. At least he isn't cutting the budget for NOAA in half like he is for NASA. Oh wait, yes he is.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/06/24/noaa-budget-cuts-weather-forecasts-dire-impact/84064074007/

>>1416346
>I guess it's a government service for the greater good
How does the greater good make money? It's thinking like this why we still have a postal service. Trump was elected to run the government like a business.

>>1416351
Some things are more important than money to most people. People don't want to leave it up to a private company to forecast severe storms which might kill them or take their house.
>Trump was elected to run the government like a business.
That never works. It isn't a business, it's civil service. George W. Bush had an MBA and look how that turned out.

>>1416351
>It's thinking like this why we still have a postal service.
??? that's a good thing. You can't tell me you would rather have FedEx delivering your mail.

>>1416353
>People don't want to leave it up to a private company to forecast severe storms which might kill them or take their house.
Most people would because it would be more accurate and there would be actual accountability when someone fucks up and it wouldn't cost tens of billions more than needed for some Democrat climate change money laundering
>>1416356
>You can't tell me you would rather have FedEx delivering your mail.
Yes. It would actually get delivered

>>1416351
>How does the greater good make money
Sovereign wealth fund

>>1416365
>Most people would because it would be more accurate
No it wouldn't, they don't have the resources of the US Government.
>there would be actual accountability when someone fucks up
Not really they would probably get hauled before Congress and get a stern talking to.
>it wouldn't cost tens of billions more than needed for some Democrat climate change money laundering
It would cost millions to subscribe to the private company's weather data instead of it being provided for free to the world. It's called a "public service", and it used to be considered a good thing before the orange business genius was in power.

>>1416366
It doesn't have to make money at all, it isn't a business.

>>1416365
>Yes. It would actually get delivered
Hilarious baitpost

>>1416371
>It doesn't have to make money at all, it isn't a business
That's how most developed countries are able to pay for the public retirement benefits they give to their people. They use a sovereign wealth fund instead of a ponzi scheme like the US does.
Finland, Norway, Japan, Canada, s. Korea, Sweden, new Zealand, Australia...
Pretty sure the US is the only developed country that's running a ponzi scheme as our public retirement fund, but maybe I'm wrong on that one

>>1416376
https://files.catbox.moe/brz54g.png

>>1416377
>Rational for comparison: it mirrors a ponzi scheme
>Arguments against this assessment: it's government mandated and transparent
Ok sure. Its a government mandated, transparent ponzi scheme, I can dig it, I agree with that explanation, thanks for sharing

>>1416383
>multiple layers of oversight
>subject to legislative action
You sure you know how to read?

>>1416297 (OP)
>Trump Unveils Plan to Kill His Voters This Hurricane Season
He was voted in again late last year by his useful idiots, therefore the MAGAtards have served their purpose. It's ultimate proof that he only cares about himself
https://i.postimg.cc/4xRfJnCH/trump-republicans.jpg
If Trump's a climate change denier, why did he buy a Tesla? Would you buy a used car from this man?
Which reminds me, hey, voters of the Orange Nixon, having any luck in selling those Cybertrucks you bought to 'own the libs'?

>>1416402
>orange nixon
Don't do Nixon like that, he actually fought in wwii instead of draft dodging. And he had the decency to resign when he was exposed as a crook

>>1416403
Nixon was the first modern president to operate under the false premise that the president can't break laws because he's the president.

>>1416297 (OP)
People will certainly die because of Trump defunding the weather service.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-trumps-national-weather-service-cuts-could-cost-lives/

>>1416411
People have already died because of it. Kentucky had so scramble to get enough people for a night watch on a tornado last month because Trump and DOGE cut their staff. 18 people died.

>>1416403
>he had the decency to resign when he was exposed as a crook
He resigned when he was told the votes were there to remove him and not a second earlier.

>>1416407
That premise isn't false anymore per SCOTUS. Admittedly it only applies to Republicans though.

>>1416494
It might be true now but it wasn't back then. President Ford had to pardon him before they started prosecuting him.

>>1416495
>President Ford had to pardon him before they started prosecuting him
So what you're saying is presidents can break the laws as long as their hand-picked successor agrees to pardon them if they get caught?

>>1416297 (OP)
If it's worth doing, let the private markets handle it. They are far more efficient than any government beauracracy. We can have a subscription based system where you opt in for weather updates to fund them. It'll cost less money overall and give way better service.

>>1416411
No they won't, and even if they did, it shouldn't be the government's job. The only thing the government should be doing is funding the police and military.

>>1416497
>No they won't, and even if they did, it shouldn't be the government's job. The only thing the government should be doing is funding the police and military
I remember when I was an edgy anarcho-capitalist teenager, too.

>>1416426
Sounds like a state problem

>>1416504
It's a federal agency which DOGE defunded and fired most employees, so no, not a state problem.

>>1416506
If it wasn't waste or mission creep, then DOGE wouldn't have kicked the bums out.

>>1416511
t. broccoli-headed 20 year old who works for DOGE

>>1416511
>DOGE would NEVER lie to me!
Uh huh.

>>1416297 (OP)
The southern states voted for this and asked for this. Got no to blame but themselves.

>>1416497
>Perfectly functional system that took 0.01% of the federal budget
>Nah fuck that let's let the free market fix it and charge people 10 bucks a month for an app
Even if you think the only thing the government should fund is the police and the military you should support a government weather service since a. the military needs reliable forecasting for everything it does, and b. the police and national guard will be the ones responding if a natural disaster occurs and having a forecast for those events will maximize efficiency of response as well as pre deployment (putting up sandbags, evacuation orders, etc) of assets. And since the government needs reliable forecasting data anyway there's no reason why they shouldn't then make that information available to the public, who will directly benefit from that information.

>>1416548
>the police and national guard will be the ones responding if a natural disaster occurs
Why the fuck should the federal police and national guard be responding to a national disaster? They exist to fight crime and wars. That should be up to the states. It's thinking like this why we're in so much debt.

>>1416549
nta
>federal police and national guard
>exist to fight crime and wars
Since you're either a foreigner or underage, here's what the National Guard actually does:
https://www.nationalguard.mil/About-the-Guard/
>The chief of the National Guard and the National Guard Bureau ensure proper training, equipping and manning of the Army and Air National Guard so they can perform their missions as the primary combat reserve of the Army and the Air Force to fight and win the nation’s wars, protect the homeland and assist communities in times of natural or human-caused disaster.

>why we're in so much debt
We're in so much debt because every president since Papa Bush has run a campaign on a huge tax cut.

>>1416499
I'm not some ancap. Government has a place, and that's killing the enemies of the state and enforcing social cleanliness through stuff like pornography bans to keep the body politic healthy.

>>1416609
you're not american

>>1416609
I agree, you're a contrarian troll acting like an ancap.

>>1416511
I hope you and your entire family die in a storm that you could have been warned about but now have no prior warning.

If it was necessary why would Trump get rid of it? Trump is a smart guy who gets smart people. He isn't going to do anything that is dumb like that unless there is a reason. Trust the plan.

>>1416669
Is this some kind of bot?

>>1416365
>it would be more accurate
Privatized services turn to shit because the investors care less about the people than the government does
>and there would be actual accountability when someone fucks up and it wouldn't cost tens of billions
Lol
The investors work hard to strip the service the most they can to have more profit for themselves, the objective of a private business is to make profit after all. They're all safe behind proxies and tax havens. There's no accountability for them
Public services cost more but they mostly work. At least in my country, I'm not even american thankfully

>>1416549
>Only federal police respond to natural disasters
State and local LE use this information too anon. Not to mention if you're concerned about government waste the government put the satellites in orbit and they're still perfectly functional, meteorologists are just not receiving the information from them any more due to what amounts to a policy change. Aren't you pissed your tax dollars paid for these satellites and now you don't even get to reap the benefits of them any more?

>>1416697
>Aren't you pissed your tax dollars paid for these satellites and now you don't even get to reap the benefits of them any more?
No because he didn't think about this beyond what he was told to think.

>>1416714
Just for the record,
>>1416549
>>1416343
and
>>1416351
were all sarcasm and some of you motherfuckers need tone indicators.

>>1416714
I am pissed that my taxes went to those satellites to begin with. Maybe they can sell them off to recoup some of the money and offer it back in the form of a tax break.