Could 5G Radiation Cause Weather-Forecasting Satellites to Fail?



Meteorologists around the world are concerned that the new 5G wireless system now being rolled out across the globe could seriously affect their ability to predict major storms. They say that 5G is likely to disrupt the satellite instruments forecasters use to monitor changes in the atmosphere, and this would impair warnings about storms. -GEG

New mobile system to be launched this year ‘will put lives at risk’

The introduction of 5G mobile phone networks could seriously affect weather forecasters’ ability to predict major storms.

That
is the stark warning of meteorologists around the world, who say the
next-generation wireless system now being rolled out across the globe is
likely to disrupt the delicate satellite instruments they use to
monitor changes in the atmosphere.

The result will be impaired forecasts, poorer warnings about major storms, and loss of life, they say.

“The way 5G
is being introduced could seriously compromise our ability to forecast
major storms,” said Tony McNally of the European Centre for Medium-Range
Weather Forecasts in Reading. “In the end it could make the difference
between life and death. We are very concerned about this.”

The
crisis facing the world’s meteorologists stems from the fact that the
radio frequencies the new 5G networks will use could contaminate
critical Earth observations made by weather satellites.

Instruments
on board the satellites peer down into the atmosphere and study
variables such as water vapour, rain, snow, cloud cover and ice content –
all crucial factors that influence our weather.

One example is
the 23.8 gigahertz (GHz) frequency. Water vapour emits a faint signal at
this specific natural wavelength, and this data is monitored and
measured by weather satellites. Forecasters then use this information to
work out how a storm or weather system is likely to develop.

“Such
data is critical to our ability to make forecasts,” said Niels Bormann,
also of the Reading weather centre. “They are a unique natural
resource, and if we lose this capability, weather forecasts will get
significantly worse.”

The problem is that some 5G phone networks
may transmit near a frequency similar to that emitted by water vapour,
and so would produce a signal that looks very like its presence in the
atmosphere.

“We would not be able to tell the difference and so
would have to discard that data,” added Bormann. “That would compromise
our ability to make accurate forecasts.”

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