Andrew Herron
EF3
Just saying, with a diminished NWS capability, it could create an intentional vacuum that would have to be filled by the private sector. Just an idea, not really based on reality.
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Huh?
Where do you get the idea AccuWeather/WeatherData wants the NWS budget cut?
Wouldn't normal profit motive drive AccuWeather to want this? I think if you asked most businesses if they'd prefer for their competition to have less funds to compete with, they'd say yes. NWS is a competing entity and AccuWeather has been treating it as so for some time. Don't make me dig out the ol' hurricane product they posted a few years back to their website that claimed that NWS's targeting probability predictions were useless and that AccuWeather's were much more accurate.
Wouldn't normal profit motive drive AccuWeather to want this? I think if you asked most businesses if they'd prefer for their competition to have less funds to compete with, they'd say yes. NWS is a competing entity and AccuWeather has been treating it as so for some time. Don't make me dig out the ol' hurricane product they posted a few years back to their website that claimed that NWS's targeting probability predictions were useless and that AccuWeather's were much more accurate.
This proposal has nothing to do with DP & PA. Are you sure they offered it up? I thought this came from the border state senators?
I trust my source
If your source told you that the NWS approached the Senator and asked her to take money out of their budget and put it into the alien act - your source was wrong. Regardless of the long-term plans.
Don't tell Accuweather or they may just scoop it up!I was reading WOOD-TV Weather Blog and read about this.
United Kingdom (England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales)
is thinking about selling their MET office (United Kingdom Meteorological Office)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8312999.stm
Mike
Don't tell Accuweather or they may just scoop it up!
Hey if we can ship him over-seas, I think everybody wins..... except the UK!Since they're the largest weather company in the world - wouldn't that make sense? Or would you rather have it run by K-Mart?