I mean… this is Lemmy. I know there is a weather station near the sheriff’s office that does all the local reporting, and I watched it get built way back when.
Weather Stations are sort of the “Hello World” of embedded systems because they have to run for decades at a time fairly easily. The hard part is probably reverse engineering the communication protocol, but chances are they use LORA and just parse and upload data server side.
Short of DOGE deciding to do fieldwork and physically take down the local weather Stations, it would be feasible to “pirate” (it was already free?) the local weather broadcasts.
I mean… this is Lemmy. I know there is a weather station near the sheriff’s office that does all the local reporting, and I watched it get built way back when.
Weather Stations are sort of the “Hello World” of embedded systems because they have to run for decades at a time fairly easily. The hard part is probably reverse engineering the communication protocol, but chances are they use LORA and just parse and upload data server side.
Short of DOGE deciding to do fieldwork and physically take down the local weather Stations, it would be feasible to “pirate” (it was already free?) the local weather broadcasts.
No idea about radar though. Any meteorologists ?