As most of you guys know, the National Hurricane Center in Miami Florida is pretty much where everyone in Florida is turning today for the updated forecasts on Tropical Storm Fay. There is a slight problem though. As of 3 hours ago we began getting email reports from various Florida residents about the National Hurricane Center’s websites NHC.Noaa.gov not loading.
At first many individuals thought, “oh, since Tropical storm Fay is so close to Miami, maybe the site is being affected from power outages or such.” The problem here is that the servers running the site are not located in Miami, and the winds are only very moderate outside of Miami thus far. No reports of power outages as of yet anywhere on the East coast of Florida.
The problem is simple. The National Hurricane center’s servers are being overloaded. Strange since you would think a national government run organization would make sure they are able to maintain a site uptime at the most important times for viewers. We are happy to report that the downtime is only sporadic and is mostly just server slowdown rather then being completely down. If the site is down, then turn on your local news stations for the updates from the Hurricane center.
Stay tuned to Profiles blog for the latest on Tropical Storm fay, and all the updated graphics and predictions out of the national hurricane center. As with all storms, follow the local news stations advice carefully., and never underestimate the power of even a tropical storm should Fay not increase it’s stength too much over the next 20 hours before landfall prediction
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