{"id":63174,"date":"2025-06-12T17:18:52","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T21:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=63174"},"modified":"2025-06-12T08:22:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T12:22:49","slug":"noaa-weather-radio-disruptions-highlight-need-for-eas-backups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/noaa-weather-radio-disruptions-highlight-need-for-eas-backups\/","title":{"rendered":"“NOAA Weather Radio Disruptions Highlight Need for EAS Backups”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor Dennis Dura for sharing an article from Radio World that highlights recent NOAA Weather Radio outages and the broader implications for emergency alerting systems. A timely reminder of the vital role EAS backups play in public safety infrastructure.<\/p>\n

Read the full article here: NOAA Weather Radio Disruptions Highlight Need for EAS Backups<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Dennis Dura for sharing an article from Radio World that highlights recent NOAA Weather Radio outages and the broader implications for emergency alerting systems. A timely reminder of the vital role EAS backups play in public safety infrastructure. Read the full article here: NOAA Weather Radio Disruptions Highlight Need […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,6578],"tags":[5875,8494,427,634],"class_list":["post-63174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-weather-radio","tag-dennis-dura","tag-eas","tag-noaa","tag-radio-world"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-gqW","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":53621,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/noaa-weather-radio-needs-some-serious-upgrades\/","url_meta":{"origin":63174,"position":0},"title":"NOAA weather radio “needs some serious upgrades”","author":"Thomas","date":"August 6, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dennis Dura, who shares the following article from Slate: The Radio System That Keeps Us Safe From Extreme Weather Is Under Threat NOAA Weather Radio needs some serious upgrades. 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