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Do we know this is due to an electrical storm? Today had a leap second as well (The minute of midnight, June 30th lasted a second longer than normal).
by gee_totes 14y ago
Do we know this is due to an electrical storm? Today had a leap second as well (The minute of midnight, June 30th lasted a second longer than normal).
- dfc 14y agoThe leap second has not happened yet[1]: UTC TIME STEP on the 1st of July 2012 A positive leap second will be introduced at the end of June 2012. The sequence of dates of the UTC second markers will be: 2012 June 30, 23h 59m 59s 2012 June 30, 23h 59m 60s 2012 July 1, 0h 0m 0s [1] http://hpiers.obspm.fr/iers/bul/bulc/bulletinc.43 http://hpiers.obspm.fr/iers/bul/bulc/bulletinc.43
- jaredbeck 14y ago8:40 PM PDT We can confirm that a large number of instances in a single Availability Zone have lost power due to electrical storms in the area. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (N. Virginia)
- dangrossman 14y agoThis is the kind of weather conditions that spawn very electrically active storms. I don't doubt they could cause the issues. Last night was probably the most electrically active storm I've ever seen up here -- virtually non-stop lightning strikes for an hour or two, and there's another just like it over Virginia right now. http://i.imgur.com/d5pEP.png http://i.imgur.com/d5pEP.png