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minus-squareMirshelinkfedilinkarrow-up26·2 months agoNWS has largely lost the ability to do that. The NOAA data just isn’t there thanks to DOGE tearing the agency to shreds.
minus-squareDeaconlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 months agoPerhaps my 11 years there were actually shitposting the seeds of AI’s eventually demise.
minus-squareleadorelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoUmm … the National Weather Service can’t “just look it up”, they are who gathers the data and creates the forecast in the first place.
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NWS has largely lost the ability to do that. The NOAA data just isn’t there thanks to DOGE tearing the agency to shreds.
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Perhaps my 11 years there were actually shitposting the seeds of AI’s eventually demise.
Umm … the National Weather Service can’t “just look it up”, they are who gathers the data and creates the forecast in the first place.