Aging Infrastructure at the National Weather Service
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‘This is not rocket science.’ Years after a fix was promised, National Weather Service website still unreliable.
Sept. 10 was the peak of hurricane season in the Atlantic. If you checked the forecast on Sept. 11, you probably found parts of the National Weather Service’s website down. Then, on Tuesday, the website suffered another outage — the latest of many dating back years.
Users trying to access National Weather Service “point and click” forecasts, discussions, watch and warning information, interactive maps and a slew of other resources encountered “page not found” notices. Some were accompanied by a string of numbers that had nothing to do with the weather. If you had an urgent need for critical weather information, you were out of luck.
The National Weather Service released a statement, saying it was “aware of recent intermittent slowness and temporary outages of some web services.” It also tweeted an update.
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