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From now on, every time I see the word "anomaly" I will assume it is an euphemism for "someone stepped on it".

> Supposedly from someone stepping on it in the cleanroom

I would be too embarrassed to return to work if I did that.

My restorative mode is also "turn self towards sun, don't do anything unnecessary".

They should rebrand it as "Praise the Sun" mode. We are sorry, GOES-19 is temporarily unavailable during a planned solar worship break of indefinite length.

Looks like its started to publish new imagery again! I'm sure those fellows are relieved to have it working... I can't imagine the stress of trying to debug something that far away and unreachable!

https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/sector_band.php?sat=G1...

Is this what you're talking about? https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/goes/conus_band.php?sat=G16...

I used to work for NOAA. I think the scientists would flip out over this. Did you share it?

While it may not be flashy, I personally find the GOES sites extremely useful. Things are often simply placed at obvious and expected URLs, so scraping or monitoring is extremely easy.

I wrote the script that provides the GOES NavSum [1] and it pretty much just builds a standardized text file and drops it in the folder. The neat thing is that this makes it really easy to programmatically scrape and parse the data.

I wrote a personal script at one point that would download the GOES-EAST CONUS image and both EAST and WEST full disk images and composite them into a wallpaper. At one point my server had 500GB of archived GOES imagery. I liked to joke with my former coworkers that I could report image anomalies before they notice because my desktop wallpaper would change every 10 minutes.

[1] https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/resources/cemscs/navsum.txt

The ones that look old are old. The USG has newer design systems that you'll see used on many of the websites that have been redesigned more recently: https://designsystem.digital.gov/

This admin gutted both NOAAs budget and workforce so a website redesign is probably low priority at the moment.

Lots of the web still looks like this when you step outside the comfort zone of big tech search engines, content streaming sites, and social media.

The link OP submitted appears to be a webpage displaying a screenshot of another web page, and the image aspect ratio has been altered. It's so comically bad it had to be on purpose, or someone is doing their web dev in MS Word.

Edit: I think actually it's a screenshot of a screenshot even, and this appears to be the entire design of spaceweather.gov. What in the holy heck is going on there? This has to be a top 10 worst website designs of all time.

Why must everything look and be modern

You can thank AccuWeather for nerfing any funding for site modernization. I'm surprised the tiled radar map hasn't had the Biden performance fixes reverted.

What is it that the space aliens don't want us to see? The obvious conclusion is that they are hiding their invasion fleet arrivals inside of hurricanes. The proof will be when the system comes back online and only permits us to see ordinary weather.

https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/#datafile-3

I disagree. That just shows GOES-19 as "green", whatever that means. The OP link is also not very informative, but this link is even less so.

No, you can’t see ships with this satellite. Too small. Besides, Russia and China have way better satellites that they’ll happily share intel from with Cuba.

Looking at the timestamp, that's from yesterday. Nominal product delivery happens ~every 10 minutes.