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Earlier METAR Delays And Weather.gov Slowness
Notices & outages ...EARLIER METAR DELAYS AND WEATHER.GOV SLOWNESS...
Good news: a problem affecting FAA, weather.gov, NCO and METAR has been resolved. Service should be back to normal.
FAA is the Federal Aviation Administration, which exchanges aviation weather data with NWS, weather.gov is the public NWS website, NCO is NWS Central Operations, which runs the computing behind the forecast models and METAR is routine hourly airport surface weather reports.
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Exactly as NWS transmitted it. Everything above is our plain-English reading of this text — if the two ever disagree, this is the authoritative version.
000 NOUS42 KWNO 272016 ADMSDM SENIOR DUTY METEOROLOGIST NWS ADMINISTRATIVE MESSAGE NWS CENTRAL OPERATIONS COLLEGE PARK MD 2014Z MON JUL 27 2026 ...EARLIER METAR DELAYS AND WEATHER.GOV SLOWNESS... The slowness with weather.gov should be back to normal over the last 1-2 hours. In addition, NCO dataflow and network teams continue to work with the FAA on a connection issue to one of their sites. Some occasional testing of the dataflow on the primary path may continue to cause METARs to be intermittently delayed while we troubleshoot the connection, however most data is flowing over the backup path. Handel/SDM/NCO