> What is the public good

Accurate, scientific information to make informed decisions that can affect your safety and well-being. If you have to drive over a bridge or close to a body of water every day but you know there is a high chance of flooding tomorrow would you still travel to the same high risk area?

What do you think is the role of government? To improve the lives of its citizens should be up there, do you agree?

It's not that weather is difficult for markets to provide. It's that it's worthwhile for the government to make it freely available to everyone.

Ask all of those people who just drowned in Texas and are complaining that the weather warnings should have been given sooner.

Is that a solution only governments can provide? And in that case was the failing at the federal or local level?

Why do you keep asking strangely presumptuous questions without answering the simple, direct questions yourself?

Are you honestly interested in discussion or are you more interested in pushing a particular narrative?

The failing was local, because the MAGA morons refused federal funding to install alarm systems because it came from Biden (until, of course, they quietly took it and redirected the funds to the Sheriff department).

The NWS worked perfectly and they were warned in time.

Public services like NWS use a public service model. The idea is literally to provide as comprehensive a service as possible.

A private service will provide a profitable service, which will be cut-down, nickel-and-dimed, and generally enshitified for profitability,

Financially, the relatively small cost of these public services makes a negligible contribution to taxes while providing huge national benefits.

>What is the public good...

... in providing a weather forecast?