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ShreddinEd



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PostPosted: Fri Mar 12, 2021 4:41 pm    Post subject: What happened to the Buoys? Reply with quote

Why are all the buoys offline? Also, seems like a lot of the regular sites (Waddell, Long Marine Lab) also have been having problems. What's up?

I thought there was a tech support sub-forum, so forgive this note there's a more appropriate place.
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bprice



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PostPosted: Fri Mar 12, 2021 8:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I put in a support ticket on Wednesday at 11am for the Buoy issue. They confirmed the problem and are working on it.
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dvCali



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PostPosted: Sat Mar 13, 2021 10:45 am    Post subject: Re: What happened to the Buoys? Reply with quote

ShreddinEd wrote:
Why are all the buoys offline?

I was wandering about the buoys too. The Farallon buoy is my only real time forecast together with the wind sock on the deck of my house. (Thye work like a charm for westerlies.) It is operated by the National Data Buoy Center and this is what it says:

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.

first time I noticed it happen in 2 decades plus ...
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