Telamon wrote in
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Maybe Rick Santorum got to it first. He has proposed that information
from the National Weather Service not be made available, in general, to
the public. Instead, you would need to use a subscription service for day
to day weather information. Of course, they would make NWS information
available if a storm approaches.

I use Notify, offered on the Weather Channel, and I've always been
surprised that Notify would ring my home and cellular phones, and send a
message to my pager, 5 or more minutes before the NWS released the
information for activation of compliant weather radios. Notify uses the
NWS information, you would think that the NWS could get the message out
before Notify.

Imagine, a tax payer funded service whose data must be withheld from the
tax payers.

Dr. Artaud


Apparently Accu-Weather, in Pennsylvania, is a contributor to his and
Specter's campaigns.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05116/494329.stm

"WASHINGTON -- Sen. Rick Santorum has introduced legislation that would
limit the information that the National Weather Service can provide to
the public, in what the Pennsylvania Republican's aides describe as an
effort to make sure that private weather companies -- particularly those
in his home state -- can compete in the marketplace and retain jobs.

Santorum's legislation directs the U.S. secretary of commerce to limit
the National Weather Service's offerings to just those services that
private-sector weather companies cannot or are unwilling to offer --
unless the information is related to "severe weather forecasts and
warnings designed for the protection of life and property" or information
that the government must provide under international aviation accords."




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