DOD will turn off three weather satellites used in Hurricane forecasting July 31st

[surfered]

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/7/8/2332245/-Trump-s-DoD-will-turn-off-three-weather-satellites-July-31st

[Lovie777]

1. WTF.....

[BoRaGard]

2. "Take that, you taxpaying suckers, you. Ha ha." - Heg's Seth (R-Armageddon)

[bucolic_frolic]

3. 40 days and 40 nights, build an Arc

they are bulking up the anti-science pro-religion sauce

[Brenda]

12. I bought flood insurance for the first time ever in January.

I don't live there but I know Asheville well and couldn't believe that shit last fall from the Helene catastrophe.

The insurance wasn't that much and you just can't say "it won't happen here" about anything anymore.

[Passages]

4. We're going to need to require by law as a safety measure, that this kind of move cannot be

accomplished without congressional approval.

This is nuts.

[Greg_In_SF]

5. This is probably because NASA

just launched the final in the series of GOES-U (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite U) satellites last Summer. These new weather satellites provide continuous coverage of the Western Hemisphere, including monitoring tropical systems in the Atlantic ocean. They went in to service on April 7 of this year and are expected to be in service for the next 15 years.

[Jilly_in_VA]

6. That just makes so much sense

[Passages]

7. Forecasters Lose Key Satellites Ahead of Hurricane Season Meteorologist Explains Why It Matters

Jul 05, 2025

The author is a meteorologist and research program manager at University of Wisconsin-Madison. This story was first published in The Conversation and is reprinted here with permission.

By CHRIS VAGASKY
About 600 miles off the west coast of Africa, large clusters of thunderstorms begin organizing into tropical storms every hurricane season. They aren’t yet in range of Hurricane Hunter flights, so forecasters at the National Hurricane Center rely on weather satellites to peer down on these storms and beam back information about their location, structure and intensity.

The satellite data helps meteorologists create weather forecasts that keep planes and ships safe and prepare countries for a potential hurricane landfall.

Now, meteorologists are about to lose access to three of those satellites.

On June 25, 2025, the Trump administration issued a service change notice announcing that the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program, DMSP, and the Navy’s Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center would terminate data collection, processing and distribution of all DMSP data no later than June 30. The data termination was postponed until July 31 following a request from the head of NASA’s Earth Science Division.
https://loosecannon.substack.com/p/forecasters-lose-key-satellites-ahead

[tanyev]

8. Good thing Trump can protect Mar a Lago by drawing a protective Sharpie circle around it on a map.

😒

[B.See]

9. Making America "great" again.

Unfortunately, in Bizarro-world MAGA-ease, 'great' means turning everything into SH-T.

[Brenda]

10. Yay! Just in time for the peak of hurricane season!

Well, we're all going to die. Said some politician somewhere...

I wouldn't be surprised if the DOD put a price on them for scientists and meteorologists to use them again.

[milestogo]

11. We should require by law that the conservatives on the Supreme Court

and the entire TSF administration live in active hurricane states for the entirety of hurricane season.