see this is the kinda shit i don't understand, what do they gain from this? It's like banning umbrellas, are they literally just trying to optimize suffering and deaths?

I'm not okay.

They want to put us under mushrooms and shit on us so we won't know anything at all.

Wind chimes, a barometer and a thermometer will make it obvious if bad weather is rolling in. Problem is, we need predictive data.

They want to nickle and dime you for everything.

Time to set up our own LoRa stations and decentralize our data worldwide

What a bunch of fucktards!

I'm a flight instructor. I use these weather reports every day to make safe decisions for me and my students. Flight training already costs so much, having us pay for weather, which is a service the gov has and should continue to provide for free using tax money to fund is essential. It's ridiculous and will lead to alot of issues. Airlines will probably be fine. But General Aviation will have problems...

I vaguely recall Thatcher government in UK also tried to privatise the weather, added layers of complicated accounting (not sure how is now - how much of this got rolled back ? ).

I wonder if there’s any sort of alternative, community weather system that is run for the public good. I’m envisioning an open source ecosystem where people buy commodity weather instruments (barometers, thermometers, anemometers) and then connect them to a program which feeds them to a larger decentralized network. Then people could make visuals of the conglomerate data to see low pressure and high pressure areas, track storms, etc. If that backbone existed you could also create a distributed computational model like we see in projects like ‘folding from home’ in order to create forecast maps. Just spitballing but if anybody knows of programs that do any part of this I’d love to hear about them

Does this mention trump's relationship with the weather channel guy?