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US Defense Department will stop providing satellite weather data
crucial satellite weather data By Rebecca Hersher Saturday, June 28, 2025 • 7:00 AM EDT Heard on Weekend Edition Saturday The U.S. Department of Defense will no longer provide satellite weather data, leaving hurricane forecasters without crucial information about storms as peak hurricane season looms in the Atlantic.
This week, the Department of Defense announced that it would no longer provide that data, according to a notice published by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA. Serreze's team had already planned to switch to an alternate source of sea ice information: a sensor on a satellite operated by the Japanese government. And this is a particularly big deal right now because peak Atlantic hurricane season is looming, and forecasters have already said that they expect an above-average number of storms this year.
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