Meteorologists are losing a sophisticated tool that has proved invaluable when monitoring and forecasting hurricanes.

The Defense Department will still maintain the satellite program will cease sharing the imagery with NOAA and NASA.

With hurricane season brewing, Pentagon stops sharing satellite weather data Hurricane experts have already raised alarms about the effect the Trump administration's slashing of science budgets ...

(TNS) — Hurricane forecasters are at risk of losing a crucial tool because of military concerns surrounding the cybersecurity of a long-shared satellite system — the latest potential cut to ...

A month into the start of an Atlantic hurricane season that forecasters expect to be unusually busy, the federal government has announced plans to end the use of satellite data that hurricane ...

The U.S. Department of Defense will no longer provide satellite weather data, leaving hurricane forecasters without crucial information about storms as peak hurricane season looms in the Atlantic ...

Hurricane forecasters will soon lose access to government satellite data vital to tracking hurricanes overnight and preventing what meteorologists once called a “sunrise surprise,” when a ...

The change will "severely impede and degrade hurricane forecasts for this season and beyond, affecting tens of millions of Americans who live along its hurricane-prone shorelines," Michael Lowry, a ...

Trump admin will cut hurricane forecasters out of key satellite data in one month By . Andrew Freedman. Updated Jun 30, 2025, 7:49 AM ET. PUBLISHED Jun 30, 2025, 7:33 AM ET.