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I talked months ago about the details of all of these issues and how they go back to at least Katrina. The fact that one comms line break can take out 2 WFOs and 5 88Ds - & lack of redundant backup comms - is a long term, chronic issue. (fin/) balancedweather.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

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These issues go back decades to when the NWS AWIPS and internet networks were established, and have been a problem back to the early 2000s. Some tweaks of improvements have been made over the years, but clearly given the growing outages in recent months, lots of vulnerabilities remain. (7/)

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Nobody outside the local office had access to that radar data. So none of that data was making it into model data assimilation, MRMS, etc. To be clear, while there is plenty of reason to be upset about DOGE/OPM/OMB cuts to NOAA/NWS, these comms issues are NOT a direct result of any of that. (6/)

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Mets at Mobile would have had to pass along to Slidell what they were seeing on radar to help with issuing warnings, including tornado and flash flood warnings. This is better than no radar, but not optimal. Talked about that in original post Sat. (5/) balancedweather.substack.com/p/comms-outa...

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