National Weather Service reports nationwide radar website outage amid FAA stop

Kevin_Flynn | an hour 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 | an hour ago

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

npfries | an hour 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.

bink | 50 minutes ago

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

hoppyhoppy2 | 33 minutes ago

The New York Times is quoting a National Weather Service spokesperson as saying that their radar systems are not having any problems today and that the image that has been circulating is outdated. See the current top comment on this post.

cpncrunch | an hour ago

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

lelandfe | 59 minutes 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...

interestica | 56 minutes ago

Maybe this is what caused the groundstop?

xvxvx | 56 minutes ago

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

arrowleaf | 53 minutes ago

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

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

deater | 51 minutes ago

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

sjs382 | 51 minutes 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for the National Weather Service said a screenshot circulating online that claimed its weather radar was down was “outdated.”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.

trescenzi | 45 minutes ago

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

anon_shill | 40 minutes ago

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

sjs382 | 32 minutes 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.

parker42 | 50 minutes ago

So is this a solar storm?

hoppyhoppy2 | 43 minutes ago

No, it's misinformation.