National Weather Service proposes limiting data availability because of bandwidth shortage Author: Jason Samenow, Andrew Freedman, The Washington Post Updated: December 9, 2020
Print article For the past decade, the National Weather Service has been plagued by failures in disseminating critical forecast and warning information that are aimed at protecting lives and property. In some cases, its websites have gone down because of severe weather, unable to handle the demand. Other agency systems, including information and data streams that deliver weather modeling data to broadcast meteorologists and commercial users, have suffered periodic outages. Many of these issues have revolved around problems with the agency’s “telecommunications gateway,” which is a portal through which computer models and other weather data the agency gathers are disseminated.