NWS Buoy Data

[Anduril]

Does anyone have information on how or why the National Data Buoy Center is essentially shut down and no weather data is getting uploaded or broadcast.....

message on NDBC web site "On 03/09/2021 the NDBC primary processing servers were shut off due to a facilities issue. Station pages on the NDBC website are not updating and there is no ETR at this time. We will update this banner as we learn more."

The "dial-a-buoy" also has no data.

This appears to be world wide. I would think this is a major risk to shipping worldwide, yet there appears to be no news about it.

[CaptTom]

Confirmed. Two sources I usually check haven't been updated since March 9th.

Still frozen in up here, so I didn't notice. Hope they can get things going again soon!

[dfelsent]

Possibly the OVHCloud data center fire. That was March 9.

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/e...er-strasbourg/

I would say the data center burning would be a facilities issue.

[rslifkin]

Originally Posted by dfelsent

Possibly the OVHCloud data center fire. That was March 9.

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/e...er-strasbourg/

I would say the data center burning would be a facilities issue.

That's going to by my guess at this point as well. Although I'd be a little surprised if they're not hosted in their own datacenter, being a US government agency. And if they had no DR plan, then that's pretty sad for 2021... In other words, 4 days and counting of downtime for a "facilities issue" is pretty pathetic for something as large as the NDBC.

[CaptTom]

It appears the www.ndbc.noaa.gov site itself is hosted at an AWS facility in Washington, DC.

The APIs they recommend also appear to be hosted through that same host name. But they do reference an older FTP method which they're saying will be removed at some point. That goes to data.ndbc.noaa.gov which resolves to a NOAA host in Colorado.

I can't help but wonder whether they were a victim of the recent Microsoft Exchange hack and pulled the servers off-line to recover. That also hit the news on March 9th.

[Anduril]

some buoys are now back online, but not all. the new message on the NDBC website ...

On March 31, 2021 web hosting of data from the GOM\SE Oil and Gas platforms will be transferred from NDBC to GCOOS. Data can be accessed at: https://data.gcoos.org and new SFTP accounts for data providers, can be requested from https://uploads.gcoos.org/account/.

nothing about why there was an outage, or why some buoys still are not reporting.

so if you want the reports from you near by oil platfrom, go to gcoos.org after March 31

[hpeer]

FWIW, reminded me of this.

A single broken electrical power line that came in contact with a single telecommunications line caused overheating that led to what experts believe was the ''greatest telecommunications disaster ever,'' the May 8, 1988, fire at Illinois Bell`s Hinsdale switching station.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...918-story.html

[dfelsent]

Looks as if at least the Boston buoy reports are back.