[angelgonzales]

I’m sure that India used its own observation satellites to predict weather patterns and storms but western weather observation satellites monitor the whole Earth and share the information. Not every country should (or can) have its own national weather satellite installation.

https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/current-satellite-missions/curre...

[fooker]

If a country becomes dependent on information (or anything really) like that, it becomes a bargaining tool for geopolitics.

The US, in particular is notorious about weaponizing sanctions.

[rhaway84773]

I’m not sure how you can “weaponize sanctions” considering sanctions are universally considered economic weapons by themselves.

[anaganisk]

Us govt cut access to GPS during Indo Pak war.

[kumarvvr]

Building a capability to predict weather patterns, implies, development of a slew of technologies, building an infrastructure to produce engineers and scientists, leasing out of those technologies to startups and other engineering enterprises to make better use of them.

Its not about just using the data.

[programmer_dude]

The predictions made by your (US) meteorological department were wrong. Many would have died if we relied on you. Our meteorological department does better when it comes to local weather.