silence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 4 months ago
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NOAA also collects and analyzes key climate data
Uhh wtf? I use NOAA to get my weather, no ads, no bs.
We alllll use NOAA to get our weather. That’s what every weather forcaster uses. Even in Canada a lot of our data is from NOAA. Environment Canada has their own data but it’s pretty shit in comparison.
TIL, didn’t know how important it is.
If Trump wins I’m afraid more people will be saying this more often about more services.
Its a classic republican tactic to claim the government is useless and needs to be replaced, then cut funding so the government can’t do its job, then use that as proof that they were right to cut funding.
See how useless this program I made useless is???
Finally get rid of that pesky post office ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Shades of “Who would have thought healthcare was so complicated?” No offense. There are so many basic services people just don’t think about.
Wished american services and government functions are course(s) taught in middle and high school. It’s a huge shame that almost no knows how the government works in detail, including me, as I have to learn as I go.
In the Dominican Republic, many people, myself included rely on it to track hurricanes so we don’t die.
Dude, there is a regularly updated gif of recent radar activity specific to your area. You can just bookmark the gif.
https://radar.weather.gov/ridge/standard/KDIX_loop.gif
Fuck dredging through whatever ad filled apps or websites…
I bookmark forecast.weather.gov with my location, which has that gif and other figures available on the page.
A lot of the “private sector” weather services just scrape NOAA or other public-sector data and apply some branding to it.