It's astounding to me as an ex IT guy that this is offline because this valuable data should be hosted redundantly. But I expect NOAA budget cuts are why it is. Now imagine NOAA is privatized/disbanded.

KHkatharinehayhoe.comSep 29, 2024 11:19pm

NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information website is down, as is their database of billion-dollar weather and climate disasters. Why? Likely because NCEI is based in Asheville NC. Climate-fueled unnatural disasters spare no-one and nothing. www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/billi...

As a data engineer that works on mostly cloud services, I'd really like to see that tech stack... (hoping the data wasn't lost)

Basic accident theory - complex systems fail in complex ways.

Alaska also*

And the weird Accuweather billionaire owner is behind the privatization of NOAA.

as an ex IT guy, i am inured to fusterclucks but you're probably right about the budget

Yeah, having multiple sites is pretty basic stuff.