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Diraven

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4. AccuWeather

Reply to Dennis Donovan (Reply #3)

Sun Jul 28, 2024, 08:26 AM

Jul 2024

The real reason for this is these public agencies compete with the for profit business of AccuWeather, whose owner Joel Myers has been pushing to have them shut down or at least forced to give all their data to AccuWeather instead of directly to the public since 2005, so they can have a monopoly on weather forecasting in the US.

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