SpaceNews
NOAA decides to buy weather data from Spire and PlanetiQ instead of building satellites, because why own a cow when you can just buy the milk?
MIT Technology Review
A hairdryer-wielding gambler rigged a Paris weather station to win $20,000. Now experts worry that AI-powered forecasting makes the whole system even easier to game.
The Guardian Europe
An ancient English weather rhyme about fish-scale and horse-tail clouds is scientifically spot-on, confirming that sailors were smarter than we give them credit for.
SpaceNews
ESA picks Airbus to build a wind-monitoring satellite sequel with twice the lasers, launching in 2034 - because waiting a decade for better weather data is totally fine.
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