Weather.gov Services Degraded
Notices & outages ...WEATHER.GOV SERVICES DEGRADED...
NWS is reporting a problem affecting weather.gov and NCO. Some data may be missing, delayed or slow until it is fixed.
The message says NWS is actively working the issue, so this is a live situation rather than a closed one.
Weather.gov is the public NWS website and NCO is NWS Central Operations, which runs the computing behind the forecast models.
For most people this is invisible — forecasts keep coming. It matters most to anyone pulling NWS data directly, and to forecasters who lean on the affected feed.
Satellite moves MDS STATUS...
Each GOES weather satellite has two “mesoscale sectors” — small, movable windows that the satellite photographs roughly every 60 seconds, far more often than its routine full-disk and continental scans. Forecasters aim them at whatever is most important that day. This section announces where they are being pointed and for how long.
No specific sector moves could be read from this message — see the original text below.
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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 202014 ADMSDM SENIOR DUTY METEOROLOGIST NWS ADMINISTRATIVE MESSAGE NWS CENTRAL OPERATIONS COLLEGE PARK MD 2013Z THU AUG 20 2026 ...WEATHER.GOV SERVICES DEGRADED... NCO continues to investigate slowness and access issues with weather.gov sites and services. This includes CMS (https://cms.ncep.noaa.gov/). MDS STATUS... GOES-W Meso 1 will be centered over 41.9N/119.9W from 21/1600Z to 23/1200Z in support of fire weather ops across the Pacific Northwest. Gerhardt/SDM/NCO