If anyone has anything to add to this please let me know - I will post it to WX-TALK by 10pm this evening. [NetNews: Recent news about Weather-Related Internet Sites, brought to you by CASI, the Central Atlantic Storm Investigators as compiled by Jesse Ferell (www.weatherwatchers.org).] I've heard a lot of information on the lack of radar data when the Galaxy IV satellite went out Tuesday (5/19) evening. This was certainly the biggest outage of recent memory, especially since radar data became so common on the Net, whether that be for pay or free... times like these should make us look closely at our Internet Radar Provider's policies and ability to recover from such an outage. From what I have observed, this is how the major companies handled the outage. It appears that the larger companies fared better regardless of their actual data provider. The following are the company name (in alphabetical order), followed by their Internet Services in Parentheses, then their Radar and Satellite behaviour during the outage, and finally their Radar (NIDS) provider in brackets. There is nothing official about this posting, its just what I have personally observed or gathered from postings and emails. AccuWeather (Personal AccuWeather, GetWeather) - Able to provide most Satellite and partial Radar data to customers throughout the outage. 100% outage downtime estimated less than 2 hours. 90% or more recovered by 5/21. [UNISYS] American Weather Concepts (AWC) - 100% data loss from 6pm 5/19 to afternoon 5/21 at which time they were 90% or more recovered. [UNISYS] Freese Notis (Interrad) - 100% data loss from 6pm 5/19 to at least early 5/21. Unknown recovery status, assume same as AWC & TWC. [???] The Weather Channel (TWC) - 100% data loss from 6pm 5/19 to afternoon 5/21 at which time they were 90% or more recovered. [WSI] WSI (Intellicast, Pilotbrief) - Able to provide most Satellite and partial Radar data to Internet customers throughout the outage. 100% outage downtime estimated less than 2 hours. 90% or more recovered by 5/21. [WSI] -- ============================================================== Jesse Ferrell - Meteorologist/Web Dev. - j{at}weatherwatchers.org Central Atlantic Storm Investigators - www.weatherwatchers.org "And here a twister comes... here comes the twister." --Talking Heads || ICQ No. 136862 ||