Millions of people everyday rely on government data to chart the weather. Conservatives have been trying to stop it for decades.
Free weather reports in the United States are a miracle of the modern administrative state. For most of our lives we’ve been able to pull up weather.gov or a website that feeds off its information like Google or AccuWeather and figure out how hot or cold it’ll be for the rest of the week. Will it rain that day? Government run weather satellites are pretty good at predicting if it will.
The privatization of weather reports is a conservative project that long predates Trump and Project 2025. In 2005, Republican Senator Rick Santorum introduced a bill aimed at forcing the NWS and NOAA toAccuWeather tried again during Trump’s first presidency. Trump nominated AccuWeather CEO Barry Lee Myers to head the NOAA. Smelling a fox in the henhouse, the Senate
It’s a bizarre assertion. The current state of play allows various weather companies to compete by using the same raw data from the government. Commercializing the data would only increase the cost of doing business for each and every company that uses the data. When costs go up, corporations don’t eat it. They push it onto the end user. Under Project 2025’s plan, free weather reports would end and the cost of the third-party apps would increase.
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