What's A Weather Forecast Worth?
- Author
- NPR ([email protected])
- Published
- Sat 14 Dec 2024
- Episode Link
- https://www.npr.org/2026/01/01/1249800803/weather-forecast-data-privatization-the-indicator
The federal government has been tracking the weather for more than 150 years. Yet over the last few decades, the rise of the Internet and big tech have made weather forecasting a more crowded space. Today, our colleagues at NPR's daily economics podcast The Indicator report on the value of an accurate forecast and the debate over who should control weather data. Follow The Indicator on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.
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