This is a huge, huge "follow the money" tell. One of Rick Santorum's big issues when he was a Senator was privatizing NOAA - because Accuweather's CEO was a big donor.
There is nothing/zero about any of this that doesn’t make me believe they’ll change any number, any data, add or subtract divide reduce or multiply to get to wherever they need ANYTHING to go for their bottom-line purposes - and so far we’re allowing it all to happen unfortunately.
And AccuWeather's starting pay is crap. Taking full advantage of a specialized degree field with limited job prospects. Making you sign a multi-year contract. If you interviewed with them and turned down a job offer, you'd have to pay back expenses (flight, hotel, meals, etc).
Accuweather's bottom-barrel entry level jobs been a running joke of meteorology students in the northeast US for 15-20 years now. I'm not sure if it's still the same, but I can't imagine it's become appreciably better.
Exactly right. And his brother runs the day to day there. They’ve been lobbying/“donating” to trump to stop allowing NOAA to push out free weather forecasts and only allow the data to go to WH approved vendors.
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