Update: Hurricane Helene’s impacts on NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information
MORE INFORMATION NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), headquartered in Asheville, North Carolina, is recovering from the impacts of Hurricane Helene. NCEI has confirmed that all of its employees and staff are safe, and is continuing to support them through the storm recovery. NCEI data holdings — including its paper and film records — are safe. NCEI’s broadband internet provider is now fully operational. In addition to the recently reestablished connectivity, NCEI is leveraging facilities and staff in Colorado, Mississippi and Maryland to bring some system and data ingest capabilities back into operation. NCEI has resumed the majority of
Latest on Hurricane Helene’s impacts on NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information
NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), headquartered in Asheville, N.C., has been severely impacted by Hurricane Helene. NCEI has confirmed that all of its employees and staff have been accounted for, and its data holdings — including its paper and film records — are safe. NCEI’s broadband internet provider has limited functionality, and there is no definitive timeline for when it will be fully operational. NCEI maintains one of the most significant archives on Earth, with comprehensive oceanic, atmospheric and geophysical data dating back to the 1700s. NCEI archives over 229 terabytes of data each month from over 130 observing