The National Weather Service reported nationwide internet and communications problems on Friday, Nov. 13, disrupting access to its websites and weather products. Some forecasts and other information may be unavailable or out of date, and the agency had already acknowledged an outage affecting its online radar service, radar.weather.gov. Technicians were working to restore service, but the NWS gave no estimate for when its websites would be fully available again.
The disruption has not stopped local NWS offices from issuing watches, warnings and forecasts; those products remain accessible through some external websites. It is unclear whether the problems affect only online access and communications or other agency operations. The outage was reported as the FAA separately imposed a nationwide ground stop for departing flights, after communication problems at Air Route Traffic Control Centers. That stop began at 2:54 p.m. Central Time, with an estimated end time of 10 p.m., though officials had not confirmed when flights would resume. No connection between the NWS disruption and the FAA’s ground stop had been confirmed. People seeking updates were directed to weather.gov and radar.weather.gov.
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