As of 8:30 PM ET tonight, all data from the NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center has stopped transmitting. Includes ACE solar wind data, coronagraphs, all GOES instruments like magnetometers,etc. Essentially leaves us “flying blind” as it pertains to space weather conditions for the time being

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MickyFany@reddit

How will we know when to put our foil hat on?

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Majestic-Bowler-6184@reddit

So...this reeks of them trying to privatize the weather forecast systems. Fuck that, I'll look at the sky. I'll miss radar though.

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Sorry_Exercise_9603@reddit

Unlikely. The generals will be apoplectic. They need that data to manage the satellites.

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_Baphomet_@reddit

Could it just be shut off to the public? I don’t know how all that works, like the gov still has it but doesn’t share with us?

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AssumptionLate5722@reddit

Getting ready to make us pay an America+ subscription to access any public data

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wlaugh29@reddit

Delete this comment. Don't give them any ideas.

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meteor_gray@reddit

Literally page 675 of Project 2025. https://static.heritage.org/project2025/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf

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wlaugh29@reddit

I checked page 675 and didn't see it. What's the heading?

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_Baphomet_@reddit

I think he’s talking about how they want the NWS to commercialize themselves like AccuWeather, not necessarily as a subscription, but make it turn a profit

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wlaugh29@reddit

Oh, I thought they were talking about social points or something. I saw the other day AccuWeather is eliminating it's free tier API. How convenient.

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_Baphomet_@reddit

Lame, makes us poorer and less informed.

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un1ptf@reddit

As if they haven't thought of such a thing already. Please.

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hectorbrydan@reddit

Could be their way of cutting out climate scientists?

Or testing out geoengineering in secret, sulfur dioxide or something in upper atmosphere for blocking the sun.

What could go wrong! /s

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Rich-Hovercraft-65@reddit

Don't say that too loud, DOGE might hear you.

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Jazzlike-Cup-5336@reddit (OP)

I’d say that’s pretty much entirely out of the question, IF we somehow lived in normal times. But as we know…

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Ricky_Ventura@reddit

Gotta save money so we can forcibly institutionalize the ADHD kids somehoe

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BicycleNo69420@reddit

Oh it's only kids?

I legit had a nightmare that make America healthy again "agents" were disappearing us at night. I hate these assholes so much

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United-Anybody-2123@reddit

I hear you. 2025, anything can and will probably happen.

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AnomalyNexus@reddit

Does this even save substantial amounts of money? I get the cut fat drive but it sure seems to be hitting a lot of muscle

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Update: It looks like NASA’s ISWA is still reporting ACE data, so no simultaneous satellite hardware/software failures (obviously, but still have to rule it out) or some top down restriction of information to the public. DOGE is still on the table I assume, but most likely just a comms issue at NOAA.

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Busy_Phase_1934@reddit

Was there any scheduled maintenance?

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Plastic_Regret_730@reddit

Ah crap... just when I thought is was safe to drive to work this morning!

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couldbeahumanbean@reddit

Hell yea!

miyake event, lez gooooooooo!

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mike_hawk_420@reddit

Is this from budget cuts or a malfunction?

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Jazzlike-Cup-5336@reddit (OP)

99.9% chance it’s just an outage. If we were living in normal times, I’d go ahead and say 100% because this information is so essentially, but alas

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systemshock869@reddit

Great post, right on par for "r/prepperintel" lmao

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Southern_Loquat_4450@reddit

It's from the alien ship inbound to earth. /s (probably, maybe 😀)

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BeYeCursed100Fold@reddit

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QuietlyLosingMyMind@reddit

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thisbliss7@reddit

Carrington event

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Striper_Cape@reddit

Probably not

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thisbliss7@reddit

hOW woULD wE KNow? /s

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GladMongoose@reddit

Their social media appears to be gone as well... I'll edit if I'm just being a doomer and find out I'm wrong.

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sherwood_bosco@reddit

We need more high strung people that are very protective of NOAA.

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IncomingAxofKindness@reddit

Maybe they just turned it off for a brief ~~purge of any DEI material~~ update.

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asmodeuskraemer@reddit

I'd like to echo the other response. Thank you for checking for those of us who don't have social media

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One_Dragonfruit_7556@reddit

Always good to have people who can check for those of us without so much social media. Thank you

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twitchss13@reddit

I use an app called space weather live. It’s run by Belgians and unlikely to be impacted by any political shenanigans.

https://apps.apple.com/app/id1435501021

They have a website too.

https://www.spaceweatherlive.com

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Kitchen-Hat-5174@reddit

Was it a hack?

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Jazzlike-Cup-5336@reddit (OP)

UPDATE: As of 11:48 PM, looks like everything is back transmitting now!

I’m unsure if I should just go ahead and delete the entire post, but in case any other issues pop up (and because we still don’t know a reason for the outage in the first place) I’ll probably keep it up for the time being.

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bernmont2016@reddit

Don't delete, it was accurate information when it was posted. If too many later replies overlook your update, you can ask a mod to lock the thread and/or pin a copy of your update to the top of the replies.

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HappyAnimalCracker@reddit

Yeah leave it up. Had you deleted it when it first came back, I might never have known it happened and this is something I’m interested in. I appreciate the post! Thanks

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GuiltyYams@reddit

Lotta FUD going on here. Was offline like 10 minutes.

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Direlion@reddit

Please let there be another Carrington event and let the dimwitted slobs in the administration be held responsible for not keeping vital safety information available to the citizenry. Sucks to suck, eh mates?

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blackcatwizard@reddit

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ne1c4n@reddit

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Jobbo0507@reddit

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wakeuptomorrow@reddit

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Environmental-Gas361@reddit

How can you tell this?

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Jazzlike-Cup-5336@reddit (OP)

You can click on products in the link like “Real time solar wind” or “GOES magnetometer” and see that there’s a cutoff beginning a few hours ago

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Many-Wasabi9141@reddit

They probably just adjusted the graphs to include empty time in front.

It looks fine to me, real time seems fine, everything seems fine.

There was a small gap in coverage for solar wind but that's normal and happens all the time.

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Jazzlike-Cup-5336@reddit (OP)

Looks like it’s actually just back up now, it was looking different up until right this instant lol

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Many-Wasabi9141@reddit

Just fear mongering out here... ITS ALL OVER! I MISREAD THE GRAPHS!

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Environmental-Gas361@reddit

Thank you!

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GladMongoose@reddit

This is likely part of it as well. I almost wonder if they got the AM and PM mixed up lol.

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farganbastige@reddit

Looks like some data hasn't been updated on Jul 29 UTC yet but other reports are current.

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Warm-Okra2792@reddit

Are the satellites still transmitting and we're not processing the data? Citizen scientists can probably replicate the data unless they are shut off.

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Individual-Engine401@reddit

has this long of ‘outage’ ever happened before? Unsettling regardless.

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Mojave0@reddit

GOES X Ray Flux is now reporting data as of 3:42 AM GMT that would be 11:42 PM Eastern

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Mojave0@reddit

Sun does not have any big AR’s on it right now so indeed likely an issue on NOAAs end

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4chzbrgrzplz@reddit

And why. The stuff is there to collect data right? They just aren’t sending it out publicly?

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Ok_Item_9953@reddit

How long will this last?

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AliceCode@reddit

But what is the significance of this, if any?

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Formal-Hawk9274@reddit

Iq much?

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AliceCode@reddit

Sorry that I don't know anything about this topic. I spend all day writing code.

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Jazzlike-Cup-5336@reddit (OP)

Power grid operators, satellite operators, and GPS operators (including commercial farming operations) all need access to this data to ensure limited disruptions of their services. Practically, an outage of a few hours doesn’t matter. It’s not like a solar flare can just sneak up on us because it takes many hours (99% of the time it’s days, but under 24 hours is possible in very large flares) for them to reach earth, and not much activity was happening tonight. Significance to the average person? Nothing at all really for now

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Psychicgoat2@reddit

This is horrifying.

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lukaskywalker@reddit

Likely doge isn’t it. 🤦‍♂️

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Jazzlike-Cup-5336@reddit (OP)

There are a lot of budget cuts to heliophysics programs planned, see this post that I made as an explainer, but nothing that would be going into effect right now. This definitely just seems to be an outage - but I guess issues like staffing cuts could always play a role.

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