Each and every day is a tsunami of horrible batshit news. This is crazy.

According to another source and the NOAA, the incommunicado orders extend to the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS). In addition to gathering data from across the federal government, NESDIS relies on a wide range of international partners. NESDIS’s weather and climate data is essential not only to air transportation safety, but to combat drought, monitor coral reef destruction, and safeguard railway shipping carriers against dangerous weather.