Metoffice

[Graham J]

Anybody seeing problems with <https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/> when
navigating to your local town?

It wasn't working properly earlier in the week. Fails with several
different browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Safari) on different devices.

[Andy Burns]

Post by Graham J
Anybody seeing problems with <https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/> when
navigating to your local town?
It wasn't working properly earlier in the week.  Fails with several
different browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Safari) on different devices.

I use their website with firefox on a laptop, and their mobile app on
android multiple times per week, and haven't noticed any issues, just
tried two searches and they're ok.

I don't save cookies in firefox, so it can't remember my previously used
locations, I see a banner at the top offering to use a "beta test

[Graham J]

Post by Andy Burns

Post by Graham J
Anybody seeing problems with <https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/> when
navigating to your local town?
It wasn't working properly earlier in the week.  Fails with several
different browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Safari) on different devices.

I use their website with firefox on a laptop, and their mobile app on
android multiple times per week, and haven't noticed any issues, just
tried two searches and they're ok.
I don't save cookies in firefox, so it can't remember my previously used
locations, I see a banner at the top offering to use a "beta test" which
I have ignored.

Chrome on an Android phone also fails. Error "too many redirects" as
with all other browsers and devices. Same as earlier in the week when
clearing cookies had no effect.

Haven't tried installing the app on the phone.

[Chris Green]

Post by Graham J
Anybody seeing problems with <https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/> when
navigating to your local town?
It wasn't working properly earlier in the week. Fails with several
different browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Safari) on different devices.

Yes, I'm getting "too many redirects" errors when I search for a local
forecast. It works OK for more distant places, very odd.

[Graham J]

Post by Chris Green

Post by Graham J
Anybody seeing problems with <https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/> when
navigating to your local town?
It wasn't working properly earlier in the week. Fails with several
different browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Safari) on different devices.

Yes, I'm getting "too many redirects" errors when I search for a local
forecast. It works OK for more distant places, very odd.

That's what I see. So it's not my IP address that's causing it. I
suspect inept site maintenance ....

[Andy Burns]

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Post by Chris Green

Post by Graham J
Anybody seeing problems with <https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/>

Yes, I'm getting "too many redirects" errors

If I search for a place I haven't previously used, I also get a "too
many redirects" error, if I repeat a previous search that still works,
when I mentioned cookies earlier I should say I do allow 1st party
cookies for current session.

Having cleared all metoffice cookies, the two towns I previously used
still work, and the one mentioned above that failed still fails.

I notice that cloudflare is involved, my guess is that the cock-up is
within their caching ... can you try switching to a different public IP
address (mobile tether, VPN etc)?

[Nick Finnigan]

Post by Andy Burns
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Post by Chris Green

Post by Graham J
Anybody seeing problems with <https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/>

Yes, I'm getting "too many redirects" errors

If I search for a place I haven't previously used, I also get a "too many
redirects" error, if I repeat a previous search that still works, when I
mentioned cookies earlier I should say I do allow 1st party cookies for
current session.
I notice that cloudflare is involved, my guess is that the cock-up is
within their caching ... can you try switching to a different public  IP
address (mobile tether, VPN etc)?

Too many redirects ... the url you want gets redirected to itself. I
couldn't tell whether it was Cloudfare or Metoffice, but didn't think the
Firefox suggestion to clear cookies would help. Also happened at the same
time as the Bing / Duckduckgo failures.

[Graham J]

Nick Finnigan wrote:

[snip

 Too many redirects ... the url you want gets redirected to itself. I
couldn't tell whether it was Cloudfare or Metoffice, but didn't think
the Firefox suggestion to clear cookies would help. Also happened at the
same time as the Bing / Duckduckgo failures.

Correct - I tried clearing cookies - it did not help.

[Chris Green]

Post by Chris Green

Post by Graham J
Anybody seeing problems with <https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/> when
navigating to your local town?
It wasn't working properly earlier in the week. Fails with several
different browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Safari) on different devices.

Yes, I'm getting "too many redirects" errors when I search for a local
forecast. It works OK for more distant places, very odd.

Whatever was wrong seems to have been sorted out now, everything is
back to working normally.

[Graham J]

Post by Chris Green

Post by Chris Green

Post by Graham J
Anybody seeing problems with <https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/> when
navigating to your local town?
It wasn't working properly earlier in the week. Fails with several
different browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Safari) on different devices.

Yes, I'm getting "too many redirects" errors when I search for a local
forecast. It works OK for more distant places, very odd.

Whatever was wrong seems to have been sorted out now, everything is
back to working normally.

Normal here also now.

[AnthonyL]

Post by Chris Green

Post by Chris Green

Post by Graham J
Anybody seeing problems with <https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/> when
navigating to your local town?
It wasn't working properly earlier in the week. Fails with several
different browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Safari) on different devices.

Yes, I'm getting "too many redirects" errors when I search for a local
forecast. It works OK for more distant places, very odd.

Whatever was wrong seems to have been sorted out now, everything is
back to working normally.

Well if normal is to bring on early evening rain then yes it's working
again :)

[Richmond]

Post by Graham J
Anybody seeing problems with <https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/> when
navigating to your local town?
It wasn't working properly earlier in the week. Fails with several
different browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Safari) on different devices.

Yes, I saw it too, today and a few days ago. I wondered if it was all
the excitement about thunderstorms which never actually turn up.

[Andy Burns]

Post by Richmond
Yes, I saw it too, today and a few days ago. I wondered if it was all
the excitement about thunderstorms which never actually turn up.

Bright sunshine here now, but thunder is rumbling around from somewhere ...

[Graham J]

Post by Andy Burns

Post by Richmond
Yes, I saw it too, today and a few days ago. I wondered if it was all
the excitement about thunderstorms which never actually turn up.

Bright sunshine here now, but thunder is rumbling around from somewhere ...

Thunder around here (near Thetford in Norfolk) since lunchtime - see:

<https://www.lightningmaps.org/>

More expected.

Tuesday afternoon was impressive - 30 mm rain in 45 minutes.

[Mister Johnson]

Post by Graham J
Anybody seeing problems with <https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/> when
navigating to your local town?
It wasn't working properly earlier in the week. Fails with several
different browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Safari) on different devices.

I think that they were busy adjusting historical temperature data.

[David]

Post by Graham J
Anybody seeing problems with <https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/> when
navigating to your local town?
It wasn't working properly earlier in the week. Fails with several
different browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Safari) on different devices.

Intermittent failures over several days - too many redirects.

It always seems to come back after a while.

Cheers



Dave R