I'm still seeing comments saying, "I don't need the NWS! My weather app is better!" Folks don't understand that that cool app is just a parasite that feeds almost entirely off NWS data. The ignorance is stunning.
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I’m luckily not seeing those. But I don’t go on TwitterX because there are very a few real people on there and the ones who are there are box of rocks types and I do very little with Meta platforms because they also have a bunch of bot networks.
Explaining to our small township defunding our little (extremely good) volunteer fire department because they could just call 911, no one will come you idiots & you most likely will lose any house insurance you have🤦♀️
People should watch “The G Word” series on Netflix; second episode is on how taxpayers created NOAA and now AccuWeather wants us to pay them for the service.
Jon. Too many are too lazy or uninformed to realize how connected so many things are. I am waiting to see what happens when they finally figure out that immigration and our economy are tied at the hip.
Plus Colorado NOAA/NWS just canceled Skywarn training for 2025. These are the "trained spotters on the ground" who verify that a tornado has touched down and doing damage. Radar cannot 100% verify if a tornado is on the ground.
It truly is stunning. Not only are we fighting the ignorance of MAGAites, we also have to contend with a few Dems who aren't quite up to it in intelligence. It goes both ways ya know. Dems should be out there changing voting laws and shoving down people's throats what a waste of humanity Trump is.
And terrifying: people won't fight for what they think is superfluous, and by the time they realize it's essential--if the private apps don't pretend everything is fine, that is--it will be too late for at least hurricane season.
As stupid as the person who blamed daylight savings for drought because there’s an extra hour of sun a day, or the person who said this: “To all you hunters who kill animals for food, shame on you; you ought to go to the store and buy the meat that was made there, where no animals were harmed”
The ignorance of at least half the country is stunning. Even weather podcasters will tell you, there is no great weather forecasts w/o NWS data and models.
And King MAGAt is telling the farmers to get ready to start Growing Food! for the United States. It’s a “Stupid Epidemic”…… These are the people who have Yrad Sales 🤪
I've been seeing the same. At first, I was stunned now I'm just laughing at all these stupid MF's. We have failed as a civilized functioning society when I see so many thinking their phones actually predict the weather.
Why do so many in the weather community still vote for the gop. They made a playbook called project 2025 that explained how they wanted to dismantle the sciences. Even before that these ideas people have made it clear they’re anti-science, anti-vaccine ect… did they think it wouldn’t hurt them?
https://youtu.be/3z3dJvT4K0k?si=FhWV6tpfAZGjhLFh These people don’t care about the safety of the general public if somone can make money of life and death situations. People like Ryan hall yall and even tv weather personalities seem to be republicans. Republicans hate science.
Ignorant and scary all at the same time. The apps have to get the information from somewhere and you have to be able to interpret the information to understand what's going on. It's about to be a very long hurricane season 😩
Now consider they apply that same logic to pretty much everything else. And that's if they even know about everything else that's happening. Many don't. That's what I'm surrounded by every day.
Who has the computing power, the reach, and has been kissing the starfish to be in pace to create the commercial alternative to this? I'd like to know who lobbied for the opportunity to monopolize weather prediction.
I deleted other weather apps for that reason too. NWS is hard to follow 😬 but that’s because it’s meant to be thorough….. commercial apps dumb it down for us regular folks. I’m not giving commercial apps any oxygen until this whole situation goes away. Keep up the good work.
It’s truly terrifying. You’re one of the few weather people I followed who made a home here. I’ve always had a lot of respect for you and your work and your care for the communities you travel to, more so now than ever before. Take care.
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(But yeah, it'll be a disaster)