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 ...

The impending data loss from a Department of Defense weather satellite system was announced on June 25 and slated to take place “no later than” Monday, according to an earlier NOAA announcement.

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 satellites are equipped with unique tools to peer beneath cloud cover and capture microwave images that forecasters can't get anywhere else. Their infrared sensors capture images over an area ...