I still don’t see how they plan to privatize weather forecasting. All it takes is one or two people from each city to scrape the data and upload it to a free alternative site. It’s not like health care where each person needs individualized care, it’s more like streaming services and we’re all seeing how that’s going. Never thought the future would involve pirating weather forecasts…
I don’t know anyone who owns a weather radar. Do you?
Climate data, local weather stations, generalized patterns, sure. But access to emergency data will be paywalled. Same for data that shows any kind of climatological trends, if it’s available.
They’ll have local governments paying for a subscription so the emergency alert system works.
“Union Pacific: We told them that a tornado was heading to a spot. Two trains stopped two miles apart, they watched the tornado go between. Then unfortunately it went into a town that didn’t have our service and a couple dozen people were killed. But the railroad did not lose anything,” Myers said.
The Plan to Privatize Weather Forecasts
Joel Meyers, Accuweather’s founder and executive chair, was the subject of a John Oliver segment last year, and he is foaming at the mouth to tell people they better pay for his service or die.
No, any weather radar around here is either owned / operated by airports or the military. Although if the price were low enough that’d be a pretty cool hobby to get into, with many legal hurdles I’m sure lol. I’m sure some individuals would pay for the premium weather provider who have the radars, that’s what I’m proposing they scrape the data from. Like you say, emergency data is really where this will hurt people, especially in areas with hurricanes and tropical storms.
I don’t know if there is a plan. But if there is I would guess it is no more formulated than ‘whatever the government now pays for is what we are going to insert ourselves into and get paid’.
So whatever a couple of individuals scrape and place on a free alternative is provided by a billionaire instead of the government.
I still don’t see how they plan to privatize weather forecasting. All it takes is one or two people from each city to scrape the data and upload it to a free alternative site. It’s not like health care where each person needs individualized care, it’s more like streaming services and we’re all seeing how that’s going. Never thought the future would involve pirating weather forecasts…
I don’t know anyone who owns a weather radar. Do you?
Climate data, local weather stations, generalized patterns, sure. But access to emergency data will be paywalled. Same for data that shows any kind of climatological trends, if it’s available.
They’ll have local governments paying for a subscription so the emergency alert system works.
Joel Meyers, Accuweather’s founder and executive chair, was the subject of a John Oliver segment last year, and he is foaming at the mouth to tell people they better pay for his service or die.
No, any weather radar around here is either owned / operated by airports or the military. Although if the price were low enough that’d be a pretty cool hobby to get into, with many legal hurdles I’m sure lol. I’m sure some individuals would pay for the premium weather provider who have the radars, that’s what I’m proposing they scrape the data from. Like you say, emergency data is really where this will hurt people, especially in areas with hurricanes and tropical storms.
I don’t know if there is a plan. But if there is I would guess it is no more formulated than ‘whatever the government now pays for is what we are going to insert ourselves into and get paid’.
So whatever a couple of individuals scrape and place on a free alternative is provided by a billionaire instead of the government.