Posted on 11/13/2026 5:24:24 PM PST by Red Badger
America's critical infrastructure is facing a troubling double disruption.
The National Weather Service (NWS) has acknowledged a national radar outage affecting its radar website, following an extraordinary decision by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to ground departing flights across the United States because of widespread air traffic control communications problems.
The two developments, occurring in close succession Friday afternoon, have raised serious questions about the reliability of the nation's essential transportation and weather-monitoring systems.
The NWS posted the following message on an official webpage:
"We are aware of a National Radar Outage on radar.weather.gov. We appreciate your patience as we investigate this matter. Thank you."
According to Newsforce: "Local offices have posted notices confirming the problems and saying technicians are investigating. Forecast offices continue issuing watches, warnings, and forecasts, which remain available through some external sites and official social media accounts."
The development comes as America's aviation system faces its own extraordinary emergency.
On Friday, the FAA issued a rare nationwide ground stop, ordering departing flights to remain on the ground amid serious communications problems involving air traffic control facilities across the country.
The agency cited "extraordinary circumstances" and safety concerns in ordering the unprecedented disruption to normal flight operations.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy confirmed that the communications problem was affecting Air Route Traffic Control Centers, the facilities responsible for managing aircraft traveling through large sections of American airspace.
FAA technicians were investigating the failure, but the precise cause had not been publicly established at the time of the initial reports.
Aircraft already airborne were permitted to land, while international arrivals and departures were subject to separate handling.
This is only the second time since the September 11, 2001 attacks that the FAA has ordered a full nationwide ground stop of this magnitude (a 2023 NOTAM system failure was the previous instance).
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Ping!..............
Knock on wood, fine in TX.
Working here - south central Kansas.
Looked at the URL in the article.
Working here - south central Kansas.
Looked at the URL in the article.
40 trillion in debt, 46 Billion a year in Foriegn Aid, and our Infistrucure is from the 1950’s.
Dang it! We need more dei.
Put some illegals up there since Americans obviously cannot do the job.
Our Congress deserves a medal for this. Road Runner knows exactly what kind.
I wonder if we’re being played.
They just announced the ground stop was lifted, and a plane took off over my house before the radio guy finished saying that.
“Super El Niño” picked the wrong system to mess with! /s
Of course we are. Yesterday, the Microsoft debacle. Today, our entire national airport system is shut down. Followed shortly by the radar network failure. There’s absolutely no need to be concerned, according to the nicely dressed bureaucrat on my television. Thank goodness.
Some days, just NOTHING goes right. The curse that is Friday the 13th.
IIRC, choosing 200 images here goes back 24 hours.
https://weather.cod.edu/satrad/nexrad/?parms=LOT-N0B-0-200-100-usa-rad
I skipped around the USA and didn’t see any problems, though it’d be time consuming to check every station!
Too many coincidences. Not to worry, though — Mark “Drebin” McMullin is on the job: “Nothing to see here. Move along.”
Amurrrca’s chickens, are comin’ home, ta rooooost-ah!1111
GDAmurrrica... it says in the bible!
Amurrrca’s chickens, are comin’ home, ta rooooost-ah!1111
GDAmurrrica... it says in the bible!
The most frightening part of this is the official statement that it isn’t terrorism related. That’s pretty strong evidence that it is.
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