The National Weather Service said Friday evening that there is no radar outage and that its radar website is fully operational, after an outage notice on the agency’s own Anchorage, Alaska, office web page circulated widely Friday afternoon.
“In case you heard otherwise, there is no radar outage and radar.weather.gov is fully operational!” the weather service said in a statement posted Friday evening. “Outdated content from isolated webpages stating otherwise has been circulating, but NWS radars are operating normally.”
Friday afternoon, the Anchorage office’s page carried an “Attention: National Radar Outage” notice. When J News Network re-read the page Friday evening, the notice text was gone; the page now states, “This page is no longer maintained or updated,” and directs readers to radar.weather.gov for current radar status.
A separate notice on the agency’s Los Angeles office page, concerning the weather service’s websites rather than its radars, remained posted Friday evening. It states the NWS “has been experiencing nation-wide internet and communications issues,” that products on its webpages may be inaccessible or old, and that technicians are working to resolve the issues while local offices continue to issue watches, warnings and forecasts.
J News Network’s earlier story reported the notices as they appeared on weather.gov Friday afternoon. The weather service’s Friday-evening statement is its clarification of the radar claim.
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LIVE UPDATE — 6:31 p.m. ET, Nov. 13, 2026: The National Weather Service posted: “In case you heard otherwise, there is no radar outage and radar.weather.gov is fully operational! Outdated content from isolated webpages stating otherwise has been circulating, but NWS radars are operating normally.”
