QuickScat

[Andy H]

Interesting article http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6909887.stm

[SnowBear]

Its all about money, maybe in the Atlantic its not used quite so much, although I know for a fact on NetWeather we have used QuickScat quite often while tracking hurricanes and storms, especially in the hours before recon fly out to a new system. It can also be important in seeing what developments off the coast of Africa are doing. In the Pacific it is even more important being as it is such a large area.

They shouldn't be cancelling this type of technology, it should be advancing so that the maps produced update more quickly.