St. Paul's Weather Radio Station Experiences Outage


Tuesday, April 16 2013
The remote island of St. Paul lost its radio weather service Tuesday. Dave Snyder, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Anchorage, says technicians aren’t sure why the signal stopped broadcasting.
Usually, the FM station plays weather and ice forecasts from the National Weather Service, along with special alerts for severe storms. Crab fishermen use that information when they’re fishing off St. Paul and St. George.
The grounds are mostly vacant now, though, and so far, no locals have complained about the outage.