andrew freedman at the washington post has been following this story from the start.that scientists have figured out that 56 equipment that telecommunications companies want to deploy, particularly in cities, may actually interfere with signals that are bouncing out of satellites in space into the earth's atmosphere and back to sense a very important component for making weather forecasts. so, let's try to explain the problem and bear in mind i am a scientist, not an artist. so bear with me, 0k. so, what weather satellites are looking for when they monitor the atmosphere is microwave transmissions and they are coming from things like clouds, from snow, from rain, from water vapour as well. very faint microwave signals at very precise frequencies. so, for example, here's a little water vapour molecule, it's vibrating away a 23.8 gigahertz. right next to that frequency is 2a gigahertz, which is one of the ones that's been auctioned off for use in 56. now, you can'tjust us that little molecule to tune out of the way. and that's the fundamental problem. that's why weather