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Over the past two years, the National Weather Service — the agency tasked with issuing life-saving severe weather watches and warnings across the country — has had a bevy of technical glitches that have severely impeded its operations
These incidents, which have ranged from the apparent issuance of a massive (and false) flood watch for all points east of Lake Michigan and north of Florida, to letting a tornado go essentially unwarned due to failures of automated systems, have the attention of the agency's leadership, the NWS says
The latest problem occurred on Monday, when an unidentified Android app made too many data requests from the NWS Internet Dissemination System, known as NIDS, causing the system to temporarily shut down. This disabled the heart of the NWS website, preventing many users from obtaining point and click weather forecasts for a period of at least six hours Read more...
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