Per the author:
Also in jeopardy: Engineering + IT support for N-Wave, NOAA’s internet + network provider. N-Wave transmits weather forecasting data. Internal email warns of "significant service disruptions” if contracts aren’t extended.
Edit:
Since this was published, there has apparently been a bit of a reprieve as word got out about how bad this would be
Is this all because they made fun of his sharpie on the hurricane map and nuke the storm idea?
That’s part of it, but they’re destroying everything in the US government which benefits people over billionaires, and this is just another piece of that.
So, their front-facing research sharing will disappear as well as any content that was exclusive to it. More immediately concerning, part of their internal network is going dark. When does this start to effect weather modeling then? Because the private sector very much relies on NOAA for its forecasts, they surely don’t want this either, not that it would stop them but still.
It’s not clear exactly what will break or when; things are too chaotic to really be sure until it does
