Jonathan Porter, a vice president and general manager at the private forecasting firm AccuWeather, warns that the agency’s proposed solution would harm the timeliness and accuracy of forecasts and severe weather warnings. He said the collection, processing and distribution of weather information are the agency’s “most important services.”

That's an interesting quote coming from AccuWeather... https://citizentruth.org/the-politics-behind-the-movement-to...

"Richard Hirn, an employee who represents the National Weather Service’s Employee Organization, told Bloomberg, “We fear that he [Barry Lee Myers] wants to turn the weather service into a taxpayer-funded subsidiary of AccuWeather.”"