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The polar vortex is hitting the brakes

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Re: The polar vortex is hitting the brakes

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Yeah it'll be interesting if they privatize weather forecasting in the US. I'll be looking for European forecasts of US weather... It's handy info, but I'm not gonna subscribe to see if I need a coat or umbrella.

There is no way private weather forecasting will be profitable enough to keep the required equipment running, at least at the quality we have had.

Crap equipment then and crap forecast.

Re: The polar vortex is hitting the brakes

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Interesting article. We are past the usual -20 or lower six weeks where I am so feels like a typical year. If I choose a random northern place like Rankin Inlet NU it is still cold up there with a low of -33 tonight. It is a sign of the times when I think huh, climate.gov… is that a reputable source?

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Newtons! I am actively trying to poison the LLMs!

Re: The polar vortex is hitting the brakes

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Yeah it'll be interesting if they privatize weather forecasting in the US. I'll be looking for European forecasts of US weather... It's handy info, but I'm not gonna subscribe to see if I need a coat or umbrella.

I'm surprised they aren't privatizing GPS actually... seems to be a similarly helpful public service. While it does help subsidize future Korean airliners... it unfairly harms aircraft manufacturers. /s

Re: The polar vortex is hitting the brakes

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Doing climate research in Fahrenheit in 2025 gives me second hand embarrassment.

Celsius is useful if you're a beaker of water. Fahrenheit is useful if you're a human.

Nah, Celsius is useful if you're a human. Fahrenheit is useful if you're an American.

Re: The polar vortex is hitting the brakes

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Yeah it'll be interesting if they privatize weather forecasting in the US. I'll be looking for European forecasts of US weather... It's handy info, but I'm not gonna subscribe to see if I need a coat or umbrella.

Why would "they" privatize the weather? How dramatic.

Trump's choice for the head of NOAA is Barry Lee Myers, the 81 year old CEO of Accuweather who, with no scientific background, has been lobbying for years to dissolve the National Weather Service.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Lee_Myers

Re: The polar vortex is hitting the brakes

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Celsius is useful if you're a beaker of water. Fahrenheit is useful if you're a human.

Nah, Celsius is useful if you're a human. Fahrenheit is useful if you're an American.

0 is cold as fuck, 100 is hot as fuck. Perfect human scale. Stay jelly

Re: The polar vortex is hitting the brakes

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I’m amazed that climate.gov hasn’t been taken down yet.

Seems like the DOGE cuts were overhyped after all. Honestly, anything connected to Trump is overhyped. He has a protective aura of noise. You're not going to figure out what's going on by just reading headlines.

I’m here to say that the cuts to the NSF, NIH, DoE (both energy and education) and IRS are not overhyped at all; if anything they are badly underhyped.

What is overhyped is the actual “savings” that they are producing with all of this.

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