The National Weather Service’s Anchorage, Alaska, office is alerting visitors to a nationwide outage affecting radar.weather.gov. The notice says the agency knows about the problem and is investigating, and asks users to be patient. It does not identify the cause, explain which radar products or locations are affected, estimate how long the interruption will last, or provide a restoration timeline. The central issue is therefore a disruption to the public radar website, not a detailed report on weather conditions or a forecast.
The page is an Anchorage forecast-office site that normally links to Alaska radar products, including a statewide mosaic and views for individual radar stations, alongside forecasts, observations, river information, climate data, and safety resources. The outage notice appears on that site, but gives no specific workaround or directions to another radar service. Anyone seeking radar imagery through radar.weather.gov is advised only that a national outage is under investigation; the page does not say whether individual radar equipment or other National Weather Service services are affected.
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