FYI Trump made the CEO of the company AccuWeather, Neil Jacobs, administrator of NOAA, which is the agency actually collecting weather data. AccuWeather is one of the biggest private competitors to NOAA, and this is obviously a huge conflict of interest.
For anyone interested to learn more about the topic, check out Michael Lewis’ book The Fifth Risk.
It’s also frustrating when so many weather apps just repackage freely available NOAA data into more user friendly presentations and charge for it. If I was being optimistic I’d say they’d make NOAA more user friendly but I’m not.
FYI Trump made the CEO of the company AccuWeather, Neil Jacobs, administrator of NOAA, which is the agency actually collecting weather data. AccuWeather is one of the biggest private competitors to NOAA, and this is obviously a huge conflict of interest.
For anyone interested to learn more about the topic, check out Michael Lewis’ book The Fifth Risk.
It’s also frustrating when so many weather apps just repackage freely available NOAA data into more user friendly presentations and charge for it. If I was being optimistic I’d say they’d make NOAA more user friendly but I’m not.