Their argument is that the government releasing detailed weather data for free makes it impossible for commercial offerings to compete. So it’s likely they’ll either lobby to force the government services to stop providing anything other than the raw data (leaving weather companies to translate it into forecasts and useful visualizations), or to privatize the NOAA weather stations and satellites so they can sell the data for profit.
Their argument is that the government releasing detailed weather data for free makes it impossible for commercial offerings to compete. So it’s likely they’ll either lobby to force the government services to stop providing anything other than the raw data (leaving weather companies to translate it into forecasts and useful visualizations), or to privatize the NOAA weather stations and satellites so they can sell the data for profit.