US National Weather Service is one of the fastest-rising stories on Reddit right now. We found 46 threads in 13 different communities, starting at Nov 13, 21:05 UTC; r/technology, r/news and r/politics carry most of the discussion. Combined, those threads hold roughly 166.4K upvotes and 25.2K comments so far.
What the sources report
Here is how the outlets linked in these threads describe what happened, word for word.
- CNBC: FAA lifts ground stop after four hours, but flight cancellations will stretch into the weekend
The Federal Aviation Administration issued a nationwide ground stop on Friday afternoon, disrupting thousands of departing of flights.
- CNN: Live updates: FAA says airlines can resume flights after hours-long ground stop, but delays and cancellations to continue | CNN
Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy blamed old air traffic control technology and overloaded routers. Follow for live updates.
- NBC News: Ground stop ordered for all airports nationwide for ‘reasons of safety’
The homeland security secretary said there was “no indication as of yet” that anything “nefarious” was behind the ground stop, which he attributed to a telecommunications outage.
- Business Insider: FAA SMART AI system vendor and Microsoft both say ground stop isn't their fault
Microsoft and Air Space Intelligence, the company behind the FAA's new SMART system, said the nationwide ground stop wasn't due to their products.
- The New York Times: FAA Lifts Nationwide Ground Stop of Flights: Live Updates
- Yahoo Finance: FAA orders nationwide ground stop for all flights, airline stocks fall
Airline stocks fell right before Friday
Where Reddit is talking about it
| Community | Threads | Upvotes | Comments | First thread |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| r/technology | 16 | 84,835 | 8,712 | Nov 13, 21:08 UTC |
| r/news | 6 | 43,224 | 8,410 | Nov 13, 21:05 UTC |
| r/politics | 10 | 15,910 | 2,514 | Nov 13, 21:18 UTC |
| r/wallstreetbets | 3 | 11,710 | 2,472 | Nov 13, 21:11 UTC |
| r/worldnews | 2 | 6,672 | 1,663 | Nov 13, 21:18 UTC |
| r/canada | 2 | 1,074 | 353 | Nov 13, 22:32 UTC |
| r/unitedkingdom | 1 | 384 | 446 | Nov 14, 18:55 UTC |
| r/europe | 1 | 892 | 175 | Nov 13, 21:46 UTC |
| r/nfl | 1 | 700 | 100 | Nov 14, 03:22 UTC |
| r/nba | 1 | 476 | 130 | Nov 13, 21:56 UTC |
| r/singularity | 1 | 272 | 113 | Nov 13, 21:41 UTC |
| r/cybersecurity | 1 | 233 | 102 | Nov 13, 22:29 UTC |
The biggest threads
- CNN Aviation Analyst Says ‘It’s Just Too Much of a Coincidence’ FAA Rolled Out New AI Traffic Tool Right Before Nationwide Ground Stopr/technology · 32,506 upvotes · 1,145 comments · Nov 14, 05:33 UTC · mediaite.com
- FAA issues nationwide ground stopr/news · 14,463 upvotes · 4,833 comments · Nov 13, 21:05 UTC · CNBC
- FAA issues nationwide ground stop due to "extraordinary circumstances"r/technology · 12,072 upvotes · 2,369 comments · Nov 13, 21:08 UTC · Axios
- FAA investigating whether new AI technology contributed to nationwide ground stopr/news · 13,739 upvotes · 1,294 comments · Nov 13, 23:43 UTC · click2houston.com
- Live updates: No timeline for resolving nationwide ground stop as flight cancellations climbr/technology · 11,898 upvotes · 1,323 comments · Nov 13, 23:40 UTC · CNN
- US National Weather Service reports nationwide internet, communications issuesr/news · 11,077 upvotes · 1,420 comments · Nov 13, 22:28 UTC · Reuters
- Johnson says ‘we don’t really need any investigation’ on FAA ground stopr/politics · 8,417 upvotes · 893 comments · Nov 14, 19:13 UTC · thehill.com
- FAA Grounds Flightsr/wallstreetbets · 6,765 upvotes · 1,573 comments · Nov 13, 21:11 UTC · CNN
- When Will the FAA Ground Stop End? Here's What We Know So Farr/technology · 6,922 upvotes · 1,239 comments · Nov 13, 22:50 UTC · timesnownews.com
- FAA issues nationwide ground stop for all flightsr/technology · 7,271 upvotes · 574 comments · Nov 13, 21:26 UTC · CNN
Timeline on Reddit
- First thread we found, in r/news: “FAA issues nationwide ground stop”
- The story reaches r/technology: “FAA issues nationwide ground stop due to "extraordinary circumstances"”
- The story reaches r/wallstreetbets: “FAA Grounds Flights”
- The story reaches r/worldnews: “Ground stop ordered for all airports nationwide for ‘reasons of safety’”
- The story reaches r/politics: “FAA issues national ground stop due to "extraordinary circumstance and reasons for safety'”
- The biggest thread so far is posted in r/technology (32,506 upvotes, 1,145 comments by our last count).
- Latest thread in our sample, in r/technology.
How this page is made
SubMouse watches dozens of large, safe-for-work subreddits and Google's trending searches. When several communities start talking about the same event at the same time, we group those threads into one story and publish this page, then refresh it while the story keeps rising. The counts are ours; everything said about the event itself is quoted and credited to the post or outlet it comes from. Claims in Reddit posts are unverified unless an outlet confirms them. Upvote and comment counts come from Reddit's public data via the Arctic Shift archive and can lag. Spotted a mistake? Tell us. Not affiliated with Reddit.