US Weather Service Internet Systems Are Crumbling

Re:US Weather Service Internet Systems Are Crumbling by EMM_386 on Friday April 02, 2021 @03:56PM (#26675294)

I just tried out the new weather radar, and it was a mess. Extremely slow to update new tiles when scrolling around or zooming. Trying to "play" the radar had a 15 second delay. The browser console is full of errors.

And then, after a couple minutes of moving around the map, I can no longer access the site.

Is this the "data limiting" the article mentions??

> Access Denied

> You don't have permission to access "http://radar.weather.gov/" on this server.

> Reference #18.95fa3b17.1617393226.1c0a631b

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Re:US Weather Service Internet Systems Are Crumbling by julienchastang on Friday April 02, 2021 @04:01PM (#26675337)

There was a WaPo article about this too [1]. I feel bad for the software developers who had to work on this website. They were probably understaffed and under-resourced and had to release something they knew was not working. Edit: Note that the old radar.weather.gov was great and well-liked, but they had to get rid of it due to its reliance on Flash.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2020/12/21/nws-new-ra...

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Re:US Weather Service Internet Systems Are Crumbling by maxerickson on Friday April 02, 2021 @10:03PM (#26677856)

There were gifs. Oh the gifs.

The animated loop for a radar station would load in ¼ second.

(this is the radar lite that they could have left up without flash)

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Re:US Weather Service Internet Systems Are Crumbling by superkuh on Saturday April 03, 2021 @12:23AM (#26678425)

I miss them too.

Try out this https://s.w-x.co/staticmaps/wu/wu/wxtype1200_cur/conus/anima... It's the best simple animated CONUS weather radar gif I could find with a static URL.

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