Political pressures may have driven the federal agency to backtrack on its decision to suspend automated weather translations ...

On Friday, April 25, the NWS announced the contract had been reinstated. This would allow the project to become operational once again.

The National Weather Service has halted its automatic translation service for weather alerts until further notice, likely impacting the communications' accessibility for non-English speakers.

National Weather Service spokesman ... said the service’s use of AI translation tools had "dramatically decreased the time it takes to send out multilingual warnings and forecasts." ...

The Lilt models automatically translate urgent updates and warnings from the NWS, which are then posted on websites like weather.gov and hurricanes.gov, and voiced over NOAA’s weather radio.