The National Weather Service confirmed Friday afternoon that its national radar site is down and that the agency is dealing with nationwide internet and communications problems that can leave the products on its webpages unavailable or out of date.
In a notice headed “Attention: National Radar Outage” posted on weather.gov, the service wrote: “We are aware of a National Radar Outage on radar.weather.gov. We appreciate your patience as we investigate this matter. Thank you.”
A second notice, titled “Nationwide NWS Website Issues Continue,” says: “The NWS has been experiencing nation-wide internet and communications issues. You may not be able to access products on our webpages, or these products will be old. Technicians are actively working to resolve these issues as soon as possible.”
The service said local forecast offices continue to issue watches, warnings and forecasts, and that those products remain available on some external websites. It apologized for the inconvenience.
Neither notice gives a cause for the failures or a time for restoration.
The Weather Service failures surfaced the same afternoon the Federal Aviation Administration ground-stopped departing flights nationwide over an air traffic control communications failure. Neither agency has said the two outages are connected.
LIVE UPDATES
LIVE UPDATE — 5:05 p.m. ET, Nov. 13, 2026: The National Weather Service’s posted notices — “Attention: National Radar Outage” and “Nationwide NWS Website Issues Continue” — were both live on weather.gov when JNN checked Friday afternoon. The service has given no cause and no restoration time. This story will be updated as the service releases more information.
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