The decision isn’t due to financial constraints. It appears the Navy is placing priority on cybersecurity concerns. The shutdown has alarmed those worried about climate change, who had anticipated that hurricanes might unexpectedly emerge from the Atlantic, leaving the East Coast unprepared.
In today’s episode of What Are They Thinking: “If you don’t see a hurricane coming… does it really exist?”
🚨 The Department of Defense has decided to discontinue its weather satellite program. This means no more data and no further updates. Meteorologists are in a frenzy as we approach the peak storm season… pic.twitter.com/2Zh2kCuqxK
— Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline) June 30, 2025
The person tweeting this report is just echoing narratives. It’s advisable to disregard his ranting. However, it’s worth paying attention to the news segment he tweets about; the reporter in the piece excitedly asserts:
There will be an increased risk of sunrise surprise, meaning that, a hurricane could rapidly intensify gain speed perhaps becoming more powerful and make landfall sooner than expected.
GOOOZILLA!
The implication is that without DoD satellite data being “real-timed” to scientists, a killer hurricane could suddenly appear on the East Coast with little to no warning. That’s hyperbolic nonsense. Sure, there is a possibility that a hurricane could change from, for instance, a Cat 2 to a Cat 3 overnight, but the implication from these reports is that without the DoD data hurricanes are going to sneak up on America this hurricane season with little warning. There are 17 satellites monitoring weather, and the DoD “birds” comprise three of those 17.
Microwave data like that provided by the DoD satellites is being collected via other sources, also.
Meteorologists have been using microwave observations to monitor tropical cyclone development since the late 1990s, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) says:
NOAA spokeswoman Kim Doster said the microwave data “is a single dataset in a robust suite of hurricane forecasting and modeling tools” that includes satellite data in infrared and visible light and observations from ground-based weather stations, buoys, and devices known as radiosondes that scan atmospheric conditions from weather balloons.
There is also an instrument aboard NOAA’s own Joint Polar Satellite System that gathers microwave data — the Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder.
“NOAA’s data sources are fully capable of providing a complete suite of cutting-edge data and models that ensure the gold-standard weather forecasting the American people deserve,” Doster said in a statement.
Well, not according to experts on social, Ms. Doster.
In 2022, CNN’s “climate expert” Bill Weir said that all life on Earth was at risk because of climate change.
Former sports anchor @BillWeirCNN praises Hill staffers protesting Sen. Schumer over “climate justice”:
“The fate of life on Earth is at stake” pic.twitter.com/3Ltz95PQi6
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) July 26, 2022
CNN hasn’t predicted that Godzilla will eat the East Coast, but I’m predicting that prediction is next.
In any event, hurricane season has officially started. Prepare for the worst, East Coasters. Without those three DoD satellites, according to the alarmists, the next Katrina could be forming, and you guys won’t know it until it’s flooding Florida’s Alligator Alcatraz.
