On February 18, 2025, power will be out to a portion of the David Skaggs Research Center, which houses the NWS Boulder Forecast Office. This outage is planned in order to perform critical maintenance on the power systems for half of the building, including the forecast operations area. NWS Pueblo will be performing service backup throughout the entirety of the power outage so that all forecast products and information will be seamlessly available across Boulder's area of responsibility. All NWS Boulder webpages and online products will be functioning normally.
Systems at NWS Boulder will be shut down by 5 AM February 18, 2025, and are not expected to be powered back on until the afternoon or evening hours of the 18th. That is when NWS Boulder will resume normal operations and all systems should be back up. During this outage, there will be a few important systems that will be down without backup, and they are: