BoMed: Oz weather bureau network struggles to its feed

Australia's Bureau of Meteorology seems to be returning to normal, after an unspecified network failure downed much of its operations this morning. The BoM's sparse statement attributed the problems to “a physical networking issue”. Weather observations and weather radar were taken offline by the issue. The BoM's statement …

[Steven Roper]

The feed from the Himawari-8 satellite is still down as of posting this comment though. It's showing the image from 5:10 AM CAST still, it normally updates every 10 minutes.

[Richard Chirgwin]

Thanks, noted.

[Magani]

Encore??

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/12/02/report_fingers_china_for_assault_on_australian_weather_supercomputer/

[Anonymous Coward]

Bet someone did a botched firmware upgrade on their UCS web cluster. Those Nexus switches take HOURS to recover when you need to downgrade.