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NOAA Weather Radio Outages

52 points by MaciejR 5y ago

bombcar 5y ago
Why so many? Seems highly irregular.
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- op00to 5y ago
  Radio is fickle. Antennas break. Wires fray.
  - bombcar 5y ago
    And there are tens of thousands and the historic boring failures aren’t listed.
nerdbaggy 5y ago
The website says they have 1033 transmitters and 33 are out/degraded. 96.8% of transmitters are working as expected which I think at least sounds reasonable
- CalChris 5y ago
  A little checking on archive.org shows an example of 15 outages. So it's pretty clear that 100% is not expected. https://web.archive.org/web/20170126004126/https://www.weather.gov/nwr/outages https://web.archive.org/web/20170126004126/https://www.weath...
poopsmithe 5y ago
I'm listening to Spokane WXL86 over the air right now. I can't make out any problems, even thought the status page says, "degraded."
- Scoundreller 5y ago
  Says due to excessive snowpack, so I’m guessing issues would be during the day and/or at fringes of coverage. But that was February
mkaic 5y ago
is this related to today's (also caused by weather prediction failure) massive chain of delays for Southwest Airlines? Been stuck in Denver for 2 extra hours so far because they said the entire Southwest weather system went down...
w-ll 5y ago
Can anyone suggest a good weather instrument set for home use? Something i can use with a pi or arduino?
- SpikedCola 5y ago
  I have an AccuRite weather station, it has an indoor and outdoor component. The indoor display is connected via USB to a Pi running WeeWX under Raspbian. It works well, I would recommend it.
  - dls2016 5y ago
    I bought an Acurite Iris for $90 and a $25 SDR dongle for the RPI (no indoor hub necessary). You don’t even need WeeWx if you just want to pump messages to MQTT… this can be done with rtl-433. Was up and running in 15 minutes with this guide: https://github.com/bdwilson/acurite https://github.com/bdwilson/acurite
  - zikduruqe 5y ago
    Agreed. My AcuRite/RPi/Weewx combo has been running solid since Dec 2014, with zero issues. If and when it does die, I'll switch to a Davis and whatever newest RPi is available.
- rmcpherson 5y ago
  Davis Instruments makes some of the best and most accurate devices. I have the Vantage Pro2 sensor suite and recommend it. More expensive than some but worth it. There are various ways to upload data to the internet.

52 points by MaciejR 5y ago

bombcar 5y ago

Why so many? Seems highly irregular.

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op00to 5y ago
Radio is fickle. Antennas break. Wires fray.
- bombcar 5y ago
  And there are tens of thousands and the historic boring failures aren’t listed.

nerdbaggy 5y ago

The website says they have 1033 transmitters and 33 are out/degraded. 96.8% of transmitters are working as expected which I think at least sounds reasonable

CalChris 5y ago
A little checking on archive.org shows an example of 15 outages. So it's pretty clear that 100% is not expected. https://web.archive.org/web/20170126004126/https://www.weather.gov/nwr/outages https://web.archive.org/web/20170126004126/https://www.weath...

poopsmithe 5y ago

I'm listening to Spokane WXL86 over the air right now. I can't make out any problems, even thought the status page says, "degraded."

Scoundreller 5y ago
Says due to excessive snowpack, so I’m guessing issues would be during the day and/or at fringes of coverage. But that was February

mkaic 5y ago

is this related to today's (also caused by weather prediction failure) massive chain of delays for Southwest Airlines? Been stuck in Denver for 2 extra hours so far because they said the entire Southwest weather system went down...

w-ll 5y ago

Can anyone suggest a good weather instrument set for home use? Something i can use with a pi or arduino?

SpikedCola 5y ago
I have an AccuRite weather station, it has an indoor and outdoor component. The indoor display is connected via USB to a Pi running WeeWX under Raspbian. It works well, I would recommend it.
- dls2016 5y ago
  I bought an Acurite Iris for $90 and a $25 SDR dongle for the RPI (no indoor hub necessary). You don’t even need WeeWx if you just want to pump messages to MQTT… this can be done with rtl-433. Was up and running in 15 minutes with this guide: https://github.com/bdwilson/acurite https://github.com/bdwilson/acurite
- zikduruqe 5y ago
  Agreed. My AcuRite/RPi/Weewx combo has been running solid since Dec 2014, with zero issues. If and when it does die, I'll switch to a Davis and whatever newest RPi is available.
rmcpherson 5y ago
Davis Instruments makes some of the best and most accurate devices. I have the Vantage Pro2 sensor suite and recommend it. More expensive than some but worth it. There are various ways to upload data to the internet.