Sattelite Outage

[cycloneye]

If you are wondering why the sat pics are not updating here is why:

Subject: Diamond/Emerald System Outage (UPDATE)
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*UPDATE:

Details of the Outage:
*
The Diamond/Emerald Data Distribution System is down. System
Administrators are working to resolve
the problem. A Data Direct Network (SAN (Storage Area Network)) system
has 3 failed drives. The
Sys Admins are in the process of contacting tech support for the Data
Direct Network system.

*Data Affected by the Outage:
*
All GOES, Polar, Metop, DMSP (Defense Meteorological Satellite Program),
IASI (Infrared Atmospheric
Sounding Interferometer), GOME (Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment) and
some of the SATEP (Satellite
Environmental Processing System) data

*Date and Time of the Outage:
*
6/1/2008, 0940 UTC, 05:40 AM, EDT

*Length of the Outage:
*
Until further notice

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/SATS/SPBULL/ ... 454.01.txt


It looks like it will take a while today to fix whatever caused the outage.

[JonathanBelles]

I noticed last night that half of it was black.

[brunota2003]

Time for new weather satellites?

[wxman57]

Lots of outages for the start of the hurricane season. Here's another relating to the 12Z GFS run:

http://weather.noaa.gov/tgstatus/

Last Update: Sun Jun 1 18:10:00 2008 GMT
NWS TOC Operational Status Message
No current message

NCEP Operational Status Message
Sun Jun 1 17:12:23 2008 GMT
NOUS42 KWNO 011712
ADMNFD

SENIOR DUTY METEOROLOGIST NWS ADMINISTRATIVE MESSAGE
NWS NCEP CENTRAL OPERATIONS CAMP SPRINGS MD
110 PM EDT SUN JUN 1 2008
12Z GFS ANALYSIS/FORECAST WAS RE-STARTED AGAIN WITH NO SATL DATA
DUE TO THE ON-GOING NESDIS DDS PROBLEMS. THE RE-START EFFORTS WERE
NOT SUCCESSFUL. AVAILABLE PROGRAMMING SUPPORT HAS BEEN CONTACTED
AND ARE TRYING TO RESOLVE THIS ISSUE QUICKLY. EXPECT AT LEAST A
TWO HOUR DELAY IN THE 12Z GFS AND WAVE MODEL PRODUCTS..
HOURLY RUC ANALYSIS WILL ALSO BE DELAYED.
CRITICAL WX DAY IS CURRENTLY SCHEDULED TO END AT 02/00Z
NESDIS DDS PROBLEMS BEGAN AT ABOUT 945Z AND IS IMPACTING GOES/MOST
SATL DATA SETS FROM PROVIDING INPUT INTO THE 12Z GFS/WAVE MODELS AT
THIS TIME..NESDIS SUPPORT CONTS TO WORK ON THE ISSUE.
GOES-EAST RSO TO RUN FROM 1626Z UNTIL 02/0226Z..IN SUPPORT
OF SVR WX CONCERNS ACROSS THE SERN US.
$$
NEWBY/SDM/NCO/NCEP

[brunota2003]

I guess it is better now, than when a major Hurricane is sitting off the coast somewhere.

[Toadstool]

Time for new weather satellites?

Yes, but not because of the disk drives failing on Earth.

[cycloneye]

Outage is over.

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*UPDATE:

Details of the Outage:
*
ESPC has recovered from the earlier system outage. The System
Administrators are in the process of bringing all systems online.

[AnnularCane]

Is this why the Arthur floater (visible) is still from the wee hours of this morning?

[cycloneye]

You haved noted that the pics haved not been updated as they normally do.Here is why:

Subject: GI: GOES-12 RSO scheduled for June 5, 2008 - Issued: June 5,
Topic: GOES-12 RSO is scheduled for: June 5, 2008
Date/Time Message Issued: June 5, 2008 1105 UTC
Satellite Involved: GOES-12
Instrument Involved: Imager
Products Affected: GOES-12 Imagery
Date/Time of Initial Implementation: June 5, 2008 1526 UTC
Details:
Start date: June 5, 2008 j/d-157
Start time: 1526 UTC
End date: June 6, 2008 j/d-158
End time: 0626 UTC
Reason: Severe Weather
Location: Central USA
Requestor: SPC (Storm Prediction Center)
Contact Point:
NOAA ESPC Operations
(301) 817-3880
ESPCoperations@noaa.gov



Goes-12 Outage

Update=The sat pics are now in the correct times meaning the outage has been fixed.