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We're not discussing serving the public, we're discussing serving for-profit companies who make money off of the NWS's data. Those are the only people this policy change would affect, not you or me going to the NWS website.

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This. Accuweather and weather.com have literally leeched all the data they can get from NOAA and then they resell it at a tidy profit. This change does not affect the general public but does affect the big players.

I was on the call. my work uses these data and we needed to know how things were changing. Not only external users but also some internal apps n such. One guy from a GIS section talked up and was like, hey is this going to affect the maps on water.weather.gov and other sites? The head dude was like, yup it is. So even internal agencies are getting affected by it.

Overall tho yes. Some large players take the data here , process it, and resell at larger value. Some might call it a value add. Accuweather is shit tho so dont ever go to them for anything

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