Re: Weather Service faces Internet bandwidth shortage, proposes limiting key data

[Daniel Seagraves <dseagrav () humancapitaldev com>]

> On Dec 10, 2020, at 7:27 AM, Mel Beckman <mel () beckman org> wrote:
>
> This is either some kind of bizarre political maneuver, or bureaucrats at NWS need to be seriously fired and replaced 
> with competent people who‘s tech jobs have been waylaid by Covid. 

Not bizarre at all. NWS directly competes with AccuWeather.  AccuWeather has plenty of lobbyists and bipartisan 
political support. Anything that harms NWS helps AccuWeather.

This is why a former CEO of AccuWeather almost became the head of the NWS for the specific purpose of ensuring it a 
ceased to be a threat to AccuWeather.