Oregonians trying to check the National Weather Service website this morning were met with blank screens and endless loading icon loops — including The Oregonian/OregonLive’s staff, which found itself without a morning weather report.
But if you found yourself in the same predicament while checking to see when the late-June rain would end, you’re not alone: millions of people across the county are experiencing the same problem due to a nationwide IT problem on the weather agency’s server.
National Weather Service meteorologist Jacob Hall told The Oregonian/OregonLive that the website went on the fritz around 2 a.m. Sunday. Government IT workers have been hard at work trying to get it back online ever since, but so far have seen only limited success in winning back a few hard-earned pages…