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linuxuser3

(139 posts) Sun Dec 9, 2018, 04:36 PM Dec 2018

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Bad idea--there needs to be a centralized, not-for-profit national weather service. catbyte Dec 2018 #2

Back In the 90s Accuweather Was Pushing Privatization modrepub Dec 2018 #3

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catbyte

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2. Bad idea--there needs to be a centralized, not-for-profit national weather service.

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Sun Dec 9, 2018, 05:03 PM

Dec 2018

They want to privatize everything. What a clusterfuck that would be. I can just see competing weather services issuing their own severe weather watches and warnings. What a nightmare. That said, however, for private weather services, I've found that Weather Bug is the most accurate, with Weather Underground a close second. Nothing beats Weather Bug for forecasting precipitation.

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3. Back In the 90s Accuweather Was Pushing Privatization

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Sun Dec 9, 2018, 06:02 PM

Dec 2018

but not really. They wanted the government to pay for all of the monitoring equipment and running the model then turn the information over to private industry who would charge for the "service". Another example of socializing the cost and privatizing the profit. I don't know how this would work regarding severe weather alerts. Maybe like fire companies that watch your house burn down if you don't pay their annual fee.