SERVER OUTAGE

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Hi all!

You probably noticed we were offline for about 24 hours. This was due to a hardware problem in the main file server that runs this and other blog sites. It took many hours of hard work to identify the bad piece of hardware and then to get a replacement for it. It is finally done!

The most recent blog entry is at least temporarily lost due to a back-up issue (they had to use a back up more than 12 hours old as of the time of the crash). This message is just to update you that we’re back up and running and that, as long as we remain online, The Week Ahead post will be appearing in the next hour or so.

Thanks for reading and thanks for your patience!

48 thoughts on “SERVER OUTAGE”

    1. Hardware failure. I am not involved with that part of it so I have no idea what it precisely was. But those guys are good at what they do. We have never been down for more than 1/2 hour over a few years until this crash. Excellent track record.

      1. Yes I agree. It happens. At first I thought it was my phone. Not on face book but I was a led to see your update today and posts. Saw a picture of Emily.

    1. Going to be another wet/chilly night. Rain not as widespread and heavy as last night and early today but still pretty soaking. Gradual lessening of precip. coverage tomorrow, but some sleet/snow mix may get involved with marginal cold air. No accumulation expected.

  7. TK wundergroud has sleet on the forecast for south shore tomorrow pm. Is that accurate? We drive home tomorrow for a couple of days and I’d rather not do so if its sleeting Thank you. And thank you for keeping us updated during the outage. To your credit that everyone missed your site 🙂

    2. I think the roads will be alright during the daytime, in spite of what might be falling from the clouds.

        1. It might, even some snow flakes. The air above us will be cooling the next 12-24 hrs (its an amazing 36F atop Mt Washington) and should some precip keep rotating in from the ocean before the low finally pulls away, it could fall as sleet pellets or wet snow flakes.

  8. Alright !! Nice to have your site back TK !

    Well, weatherwise, its the perfect weather to end the last 2 days of March this year …. Raw and cold ! I feel even colder in this weather than when its 20F and sunny in January.

    2. I suppose I shouldn’t say that I have been in my glory with the surf and wind then huh? Mac said if I blew down the beach, his car couldn’t drive on the sand. I reminded him I’m very well grounded ……ballast and all of that 🙂

      1. 🙂 what did you think of the height of the high tide around 11:30 am this morning. Thank goodness the waves werent too bad, although the wind is howling now.

        Astronomical high tides thru Tuesday, then they’ll drop off quite a bit through to April 10th.

        I’m thinking the high tide line today wasnt too far from the top of the beach. Thats the way it was in Brant Rock.

        1. Not as close here as I thought it would be. But low tide was higher than it was yesterday by a fair amount so I’m wondering about tonight’s high tide. It seems the ocean is more churned up now than it was this morning. I am going to try and stay up. We will see

          1. Interesting. Tonight’s high tide is astronomically .2 ft higher than the 11:30am tide at 11.5 ft.

            I think it may be the highest tide of this particular new moon set.

  10. Ok, last September 11, it hit 97F at Logan.

    Why am I bringing that up now …..

    Because tomorrow and Sept. 11 have the same sun angle and length of day, yet it will be about 60F colder tomorrow than the last time the sun was in the same spot in the sky.

  11. Vicki… Some pellets of sleet and flakes of snow may mix in with rain showers tomorrow. It’ll be turning pretty chilly aloft.

  13. The CPC continues to show well below normal temps through mid-April so I will keep my snow shovel handy for now through next weekend and see what happens thereafter.

    Any potential snow threats in the next week or so TK?

    1. Good idea. Not too much this next week other than some mixing Monday. Looks like we don’t get enough sustained precipitation while it’s cold enough to do much of anything.

      There is some evidence of a cold storm around April 8, supported by the questionable ECMWF and somewhat reliable CMC, with some support from the GFS. Solutions I have seen range from a rain storm with mixing at the end to moderate snowstorm for southern New England. But, it’s 9 days away. Just something to keep an eye on for a while.

  14. Highlights of the upcoming Week Ahead post…

    -Rainy night, but not as widespread and heavy as last night.
    -Precipitation becomes more intermittent tomorrow, but mixes with sleet/snow.
    -Should see a slice of drier air for a brighter and milder Tuesday.
    -Frontal boundary to the south probably a focus for lots of clouds Wednesday.
    -Boundary to south may push far enough away for more sun Thursday, but cooler.
    -Boundary to south should stay far enough away for dry weather for Sox opener, but may start to push northward later so clouds and eventually rain advance this way.
    -Early outlook for Saturday, wet and chilly.
    -Early outlook for Sunday, lots of clouds but drying out, turning windy, chilly.

    1. Thanks TK. It seems that Wednesday will be the mildest day of the week…and that’s probably not saying much. A very coldish start to April to say the least.

      1. We have to watch Wed. We may flip the wind around to onshore sooner than some of the guidance has hinted. You know what a fine line we have with that situation at this time of year…

      1. Lol :). Too funny. Flash flood guidance is way down after last night’s rains. TK, why isn’t there ever 12 hour guidance on the NWS site? Back to moderate rain here bordering heavy at times.

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