5G Networks Could Throw Weather Forecasting Into Chaos
5G Networks Could Throw Weather Forecasting Into Chaos
Science, Spoken · SpokenLayer
May 20, 20194m 24s
Audio is streamed directly from the publisher (dovetail.prxu.org) as published in their RSS feed. Play Podcasts does not host this file. Rights-holders can request removal through the copyright & takedown page.
Show Notes
If you had a choice between a better, faster cell phone signal and an accurate weather forecast, which would you pick? That’s the question facing federal officials as they decide whether to auction off more of the wireless spectrum or heed meteorologists who say that such a move could throw US weather forecasting into chaos. On Capitol Hill Thursday, NOAA’s acting chief, Neil Jacobs, said that interference from 5G wireless phones could reduce the accuracy of forecasts by 30 percent.
Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices