Trump delays plan to cut satellite data access crucial to hurricane forecasting

Scientists have warned loss of data access to Noaa and Nasa experts could set hurricane forecasting back decades'

The Trump administration on Monday announced a delay of one month to a plan to cut forecasters out of an atmospheric satellite data collection program that is seen as crucial for hurricane forecasting.

There has been alarm among scientists about the plan to cut access to the data after it emerged last week in a public notice sent by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa).