Five Gulf Coast Radars Went Dark for the Public. The Fix Is Funding The National Weather Service, Not Privatizing the Network
The fiber cut that silenced five Gulf Coast radars for the public was a communications failure, not a case for handing the nation’s weather detection network to private operators. National Weather Service forecasters kept the data. Everyone else lost it. That distinction, and the reaction it produced, points back to a simpler requirement: fund the … Read more