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The Japan Meteorological Agency said Tuesday that a cooling system glitch affected its supercomputers, interrupting data the agency distributes to private weather information service companies.
The agency said that the malfunction occurred at 8:40 p.m. on Monday and lasted until 9 a.m. Tuesday, affecting hourly atmospheric analysis data. This in turn caused an interruption to provision of professional-use data, such as that used in numerical weather prediction maps, the agency said on its website.
TBS reported Wednesday that normal service was resumed by 3 p.m. Tuesday. Announcements of information about earthquakes, tsunami and weather warnings were reportedly not affected in the incident.
© Japan Today
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nandakandamanda
Even so, where is my snow? They predicted huge amounts last night and all we got is this cold rain? Booo hissss....
Droll Quarry
The back up batteries were probably made by GS Yuasa............................................................................................
Saulo Akazawa
They use a supercomputer??? By the rate of misses, they might as well use bingo balls!!!
smithinjapan
Ah, so from now on there will be no incorrect predictions and we won't have to expect the opposite?
mikihouse
can't even predict snow which is here and now but they can predict global warming until the end of century...
FightingViking
No, in Japan they have some guy "throw" a "geta" off his foot and the weather forecast depends on how it "lands"...
waltery
Probably Chinees hackers checking to see how well their polition cloud is working on sufocationg Japan and then wipe the data.
ka_chan
They are probably using the Fujitsu K since they would be using IBM or Cray. The 9 MegaWatt computer uses water cooling, so did it spring a leak? Didn't they have spare parts or do they not have tech's on at night? Over 18 hours to fix a cooling problem, is pretty poor.