The Trump administration sparked massive panic with an announcement that they are terminating a key Department of Defense satellite program that is crucial to predicting hurricane and major natural disasters, which will devastate red states.
Several red states are still awaiting help from the federal government in the form of disaster aid after hurricanes 5 months ago destroyed the states.
John Iadarola and Brett Erlich break it down on The Damage Report.
“A Department of Defense weather satellite program that collects vital information for hurricane forecasts will stop distributing data products to users Monday.
The termination of data products from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program could lead to dangerous declines in the quality of hurricane forecasts, meteorologists say. That’s especially worrying, they say, as the termination comes in the middle of this year’s hurricane season.
“There is no sugar-coating it: hurricane forecasts will undoubtedly be worse after this loss,” said Brian McNoldy, a hurricane expert at the University of Miami, in an email to POLITICO’s E&E News. “For anyone near a hurricane-prone area, this is alarmingly bad news.””
Read more here: Trump terminates satellite data considered crucial to storm forecasting
