20 comments

  • sjs382 12 hours ago ago

    Via NYTimes: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/11/13/us/ground-stop-natio...

    A spokeswoman for the National Weather Service said a screenshot circulating online that claimed its weather radar was down was “outdated.”

    The Weather Service “has not experienced a disruption to its radar systems today,” said Kim Doster, the spokeswoman.

    • anon_shill 11 hours ago ago

      Seems to conflict with this reporting from Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-national-weather-servi...

      • sjs382 11 hours ago ago

        No conflict. That link doesn't mention radar at all. Just that the NWS website is showing outdated information.

        > The US National Weather Service said on Friday it was experiencing nationwide internet and communications problems that could prevent users from accessing products on its websites or cause outdated information to be displayed.

        > Technicians were working to resolve the problems as soon as possible, the NWS said in a statement.

    • trescenzi 11 hours ago ago

      Yea this feels worthy of mod action if it doesn’t get flagged enough.

  • arrowleaf 12 hours ago ago

    This is an old page from Anchorage's weather service, not current.

    October 2020: https://web.archive.org/web/20201017144706/https://www.weath...

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  • interestica 12 hours ago ago

    Maybe this is what caused the groundstop?

  • deater 12 hours ago ago

    this is eerily reminding me of "Dial F for Frankenstein" by Arthur C. Clarke

  • Kevin_Flynn 12 hours ago ago

    This is kind of a big deal, given how important the weather is to the 50% of the population that works outside all day.

    Not in isolation, or degree of disruption necessarily, but viewed in the context of all the other stuff going on, like Frances fridge meltdown. And the FAAs problem.

    I think the matrix is getting attacked, and healing itself, with AI agents on all sides, so the headlines like this are comming out with more frequency.

    • ranger_danger 12 hours ago ago

      What if this is an orchestrated attack? Microsoft, FAA, now NWS...

      • npfries 12 hours ago ago

        I think it is at least plausible that NWS and FAA are related.

        There did seem to be early confusion about whether the ground stop was related to radio or radar.

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        • bink 12 hours ago ago

          Especially since so many weather installations are located at airports. I have to wonder how much of the comms are shared.

      • cpncrunch 12 hours ago ago

        The MS outage was due to a capacity upgrade that went wrong https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cq5y10ge3dp3t

    • lelandfe 12 hours ago ago

      Perhaps a salient reminder that shutting down the NWS has been a goal of Trump's since his first administration.

      He originally tried to put a CEO of AccuWeather, who doesn't believe the NWS should exist, in charge of the NOAA.

      See additionally the quite old 2005 proposal AccuWeather was also tied to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Weather_Service_Dutie...

  • xvxvx 12 hours ago ago

    ‘We don’t know what’s happening but we know for sure it’s not a cyberattack’. Hmmmmmm

  • deathanatos 11 hours ago ago

    The article was there, but has apparently been retconned out of existence.

  • parker42 12 hours ago ago

    So is this a solar storm?

  • yeah879846 12 hours ago ago

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