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Military walks back plan to axe forecast data
Energy & Environment Energy & Environment   The Big Story Military retaining weather data The military announced it is ...
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Will hurricane forecasts for SC be worse after DoD retires aging satellite program soon?
Weather satellites operated by the U.S. Department of Defense will stop delivering data to NOAA on July 31. Here’s why and ...
In Rare Spasm of Sanity, Pentagon Backtracks on Plan to Scuttle Storm Tracking
The Department of Defense has walked back its decision to stop sharing satellite storm data with federal forecasters.
Military walks back plan to discontinue some weather data
The military is walking back its previously announced plans to discontinue some weather forecast data after public pushback.
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Satellites crucial to hurricane forecasting were set to go dark. Feds just reversed course.
Louisiana meteorologists and weather experts criticized the decision to cut the satellites and joined others across the ...
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Pentagon will keep sharing hurricane forecasting data
The DMSP was created in the 1960s to provide global weather and space information to the Defense Department, which has long ...