MetService needs better website continuity
I visited the MetService website this afternoon to check on weather conditions and the rain radar for the country, and lo-and-behold it loaded a brief static forecast page with a couple of paragraphs at the top stating that the website had been overloaded and was experiencing increased loading.
I assume that the additional load was being generated by the warnings of bad weather in the North Island.
Anyway, a simple but brief point. This is not the first time the MetService website has gone down under the load of interest when our country’s weather looks like getting a little interesting. I would have thought by now that MetService would have realised that they should in fact have the capacity in place to provide information via their website – at a time when Kiwi’s are more looking to need it, e.g. when there is potential severe weather.
Reducing website functionality down to a simple static forecast during severe weather is entirely inappropriate.