A national radar outage would do it. This would be a bigger story. Everyone needs it to forecast. However it doesn't seem to actually be offline. So I don't think it was a very long outage if it did go down.
The floppy disk upgrade went wrong
How do a bunch of separate radars all go down at the same time? Aren't they spread around the US?
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weather radar still works for weather channels..