Indeed the Federal Government shutdown in the US has affected many web sites and web services. Seems that all of the “non-essential” sites have been pretty much turned off with splash screens replaced to greet visitors… essentially meaning that not only are any sites updated (although most do have feeds from real-time sensors and the like) but the existing legacy data and information that was available (think census.gov and data.gov) is also gone – obviously the reason being that there are no support workers or IT folks around to keep the sites humming along… Yes indeed, this also means that there are no data available to you from Data.gov either! Oh, and the Whitehouse is also affected and as a result whitehouse.gov is no longer being updated
Note, if you are looking for the rare sites that are operational try weather.gov and the NHCC (although the main NOAA page is closed)
