Even as extreme weather continues to grip the country, the National Weather Service (NWS) is experiencing a vast network outage disrupting numerous operational functions. An initial investigation into the cause of the outage revealed that the outage’s cause was a network hardware configuration issue.

A negative ramification of this outage is the fact that it has hampered the agency’s ability to operate smoothly thereby leading to a degradation of forecast and warning dissemination, disruption of data flows, and sluggish websites. NWS systems engineers worked overnight to restore some functionality – including the flow of weather forecasts and warnings.

The outage comes at an unfortunate time when various parts of the US are being hit by extreme weather and citizens need to be warned. Read more about this story on our LinkedIn page