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The Future of Free Weather Data on the Internet
An anonymous reader writes "The National Weather Service wants to update a 1991 policy that limits what data it can put on the Internet. The proposed new policy makes putting free data on the Internet official. The Private Weather Sector wants NWS to provide its new digital forecasts only in specialized data formats and would like NWS to shut down new XML data feeds. Barry Myers (MS Word doc), president of Accuweather wants you to have pay before using Kweather and other similar tools. Myers is asking friends to comment against the new NWS policy by June 30. Should we have to pay twice to get weather forecasts?"
Why don't you just look out the window? The weatherman has never made the weather any better, so I don't understand the fascination with being up to date on their predictions. If looking out the window doesn't suit you then watch the local news tonight. What's the big deal?
Any weather is good surrender weather. Current weather has no market value, as when the fleeing reach the front porch they'll know what the current weather conditions are.