This is…not helpful. And likely aimed at an audience of one that rhymes with MAUDGE. - ThreadSky

shawnmilrad.bsky.social • 18 days ago

This is…not helpful. And likely aimed at an audience of one that rhymes with MAUDGE.

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kohoso.bsky.social•18 days ago

I'm glad I'm at an age when my knee will tell me what the weather will be since I won't have any Social Security money to pay for an AccuWeather Premium+ account.

ryanswx.bsky.social•18 days ago

If they keep framing stories like this they will unintentionally undercut and destroy themselves. At the VERY least would be nice to see “AccuWeather meteorologists leverage NOAA/NWS data to provide advance warning” or some low bar crap like that

ryanswx.bsky.social•18 days ago

That used to maybe work when NOAA wasn’t under the threat of total dissolution, and I’ve seen the newspaper stories like this in frames on the wall at AW HQ in State College, but they are about to fall off that tightrope

geofffox.bsky.social•17 days ago

AccuWeather was at one time the premier weather company but they bet wrong on whether the Internet would be free or paid.

johnroblawson.bsky.social•18 days ago

Not been a serious company since they started issuing 45+ day forecasts or whatever lunacy or was/is.

bubba0077.bsky.social•18 days ago

Got a secret: they never were

kennedyclouds.bsky.social•17 days ago

Which btw, violates the AMS code of ethics…

johnroblawson.bsky.social•17 days ago

Nice find!

johnroblawson.bsky.social•17 days ago

Sorry to bother you again, but I’ve been looking for this particular section on the website to no avail. Do you have a URL link by any chance? Thanks.

kennedyclouds.bsky.social•16 days ago

https://www.ametsoc.org/index.cfm/ams/education-careers/careers/professional-development/ethics-articles/

firewxguy.bsky.social•16 days ago

I wonder if AMS could take action against those who promote that LRC pseudoscience? My interpretation of this code of ethics has LRC promotion as a code of ethics violation.

70dbz.bsky.social•17 days ago

I have a feeling this is going to happen after the Supreme Court gives the power of the purse to the executive branch. At that point, we’ll probably have bigger fish to fry, sadly

jimsullivan.bsky.social•18 days ago

Just can't help themselves sometimes.

thorcaster.bsky.social•17 days ago

Completely on brand.

larryoneill.bsky.social•18 days ago

I can't help but think that if the NWS had a content marketing manager, they would not survive the next few months.

wx4caster.bsky.social•18 days ago

Remind me again, where did they get the free radar information used in said "advanced warning". Looking around for Accuweathers radar network...wait.

firewxguy.bsky.social•17 days ago

If AccuWeather wants to get rid of NOAA then their paywalled AccuWeather Pro graphics will take a hit because they won't get anymore GFS/GEFS/NAM/RAP etc. netCDF datasets for free because that data comes from NOAA/NCEP/NOMADS.

firewxguy.bsky.social•17 days ago

And if American meteorological datasets become a paid subscription like in Europe (which would suck!!), the profit margin of AccuWeather Pro would be less because now they have to pay for data which was previously free courtesy of NOAA.

firewxguy.bsky.social•17 days ago

The same holds true for Weather Bell, Weather Models, Pivotal Weather etc.

pugsallover.bsky.social•17 days ago

I'm an absolute wx nobody, just an spotter & enthusiast, but I appreciate the NWS resources more than I could say. I was reading my local forecast discussion literally 10 minutes ago to better understand the upcoming snowstorm and make travel decisions.

pugsallover.bsky.social•17 days ago

What an amazing amount of information is freely available!

danielrothenberg.com•17 days ago

Of course, conveniently leaving out the parts where they're entirely reliant on freely available radar observations... massive "leopards ate my face" energy with this one.

shawnmilrad.bsky.social•17 days ago

Of course!

oceanstwx.bsky.social•17 days ago

I’ve seen a lot of support, but I’m also a little disappointed to that too many people seem to see this as an “opportunity” to shovel dirt on the grave.

oceanstwx.bsky.social•17 days ago

So they’re prepared to take on the liability for when they miss one or overwarn?

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