Over half of NOAA's Regional Climate Centers' websites go dark due to 'lapse in federal funding'

MISSOURI (KTVI) - As of Thursday, over half of the websites for NOAA's Regional Climate Centers were unavailable in what the websites noted as a "lapse in federal funding from the Department of Commerce through NOAA."Six Regional Climate Centers cover different states: High Plains, Midwestern, Northeast, Southeast, Southern and Western.On Thursday, four of the six websites were non-functioning, which included the High Plains, Midwestern, Southeast, and Southern pages.
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