I don’t know if there is a plan. But if there is I would guess it is no more formulated than ‘whatever the government now pays for is what we are going to insert ourselves into and get paid’.
So whatever a couple of individuals scrape and place on a free alternative is provided by a billionaire instead of the government.
I mean… this is Lemmy. I know there is a weather station near the sheriff’s office that does all the local reporting, and I watched it get built way back when.
Weather Stations are sort of the “Hello World” of embedded systems because they have to run for decades at a time fairly easily. The hard part is probably reverse engineering the communication protocol, but chances are they use LORA and just parse and upload data server side.
Short of DOGE deciding to do fieldwork and physically take down the local weather Stations, it would be feasible to “pirate” (it was already free?) the local weather broadcasts.
I don’t know if there is a plan. But if there is I would guess it is no more formulated than ‘whatever the government now pays for is what we are going to insert ourselves into and get paid’.
So whatever a couple of individuals scrape and place on a free alternative is provided by a billionaire instead of the government.
I mean… this is Lemmy. I know there is a weather station near the sheriff’s office that does all the local reporting, and I watched it get built way back when.
Weather Stations are sort of the “Hello World” of embedded systems because they have to run for decades at a time fairly easily. The hard part is probably reverse engineering the communication protocol, but chances are they use LORA and just parse and upload data server side.
Short of DOGE deciding to do fieldwork and physically take down the local weather Stations, it would be feasible to “pirate” (it was already free?) the local weather broadcasts.
No idea about radar though. Any meteorologists ?