Weather or Not

Hey you know the weather service...The National Weather Service (NWS), an agency of the venerable US Government. They do a terrific job gathering data, forecasting the weather and making it available to the public. OK got that straight. Well golly gee they are doing such a wonderful job that it must be a problem right? Well thank goodness Pennsylvania Senator Rick Sanitarium oops Santorum has introduced a bill that will greatly limit the distribution of weather information.

Why you ask? Well that great American institution know as campaign donations has come to save the day as AccuWeather a private forecasting weather company, coincidentally based in Pennsylvania, think that the NWS is competing with them and making their little ole' job too difficult. Let's forget that the data gathered by oodles of sensors and satellites is ALL taxpayer funded. And let's forget that timely weather information is vital to saving lives in tornado alley and hurricane battered states. And let's forget that pilots are vitally dependent on accurate timely weather information. We've simply got to ensure that the future restrictions on data access are put into place to help the great state of Santorum.

Hey you want weather data, stick your head out a window!