by The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said on Monday that it was delayed by a month.
Meteorologists and scientists warned of serious consequences last week when Noaa in the middle of this year’s hurricane season said that she would almost immediately stop the key data collected by three weather satellites that the agency operates together with the Ministry of Defense.
The microwave data of the defense meteorological satellite program contains important information that does not come from conventional satellites. This includes three -dimensional details of a storm, what is going on and what it does in the night hours, explain experts.
The data should initially be cut off on June 30th to “alleviate a considerable risk of cyber security,” says NOAA’s announcement. The agency now says that it will be postponed until July 31. The Peak Hurricane season usually takes place from mid-August to mid-October.
Spokesman for Noaa and the Navy did not immediately answer an inquiry to get more information about the update.
Noaa, which was the topic of the efficiency of the state efficiency of the state ministry this year, said on Friday that the satellite program in the portfolio of the National Weather Service is a “individual data set in a robust suite of hurricane forecasting and modeling tools”.
The agency’s data sources are fully able to provide a complete suite of state-of-the-art data and models that ensure that the gold standard weather forecast deserves the American population, ”said a spokesman.
However, the Union of Concerned Scientists Science Fellow Marc Alessi said The Associated Press on Friday that the recognition of the quick intensification and the more precise prediction of the likely path of storms is of crucial importance, since climate change is deteriorating the extreme weather that has been experienced around the world.
“We not only lose the ability to make better intensification forecasts, but we also lose the ability to predict exactly where a tropical cyclone could take place if it is in its developmental stages,” said Alessi. “This data is essential.
“We would see the effects in the seasonal forecast front,” he added, “but also on long -term climate change we are now losing an essential piece for monitoring global warming.”
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