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Spring Solar Outage Chart

The spring solar outage season begins February 26 and runs through March 13. A solar or sun transit outage is an electromagnetic phenomenon wherein a station downlink is temporarily unable to receive a satellite signal due to interference from the sun as it passes behind the satellite. Solar outages occur on a predictable schedule and affect downlinks in the U.S. for about five consecutive days, for as much as six minutes a day, twice each year.  Click here for the rules that apply to all solar outages.

We encourage stations and producers to take the following steps in preparation for solar outages in your region:

• Producers: Program producers of episodes scheduled to transmit during the outage season are encouraged to make sure their content is loaded on a timely basis. Posting evergreen episodes of live programs will give stations programming options during the outages in their regions.
  
• Stations: Stations should consider operational requirements during the predicted outage duration for their area and download content as provided by program producers.
  

Location	Outage Time (EST)
Alaska (Anchorage)	February 27–March 2, 1:35 p.m.
Alaska (Barrow)	February 26–28, 1:39 p.m.
Alaska (Fairbanks)	February 26–March 2, 1:37 p.m.
Alaska (Southern)	February 27–March 2, 1:36 p.m.
Alabama	March 5–8, 1:54 p.m.
Arkansas	March 4–8, 1:51 p.m.
Arizona	March 5–8, 1:40 p.m.
California (Northern)	March 3–6, 1:36 p.m.
California (San Francisco)	March 3–7, 1:36 p.m.
California (Los Angeles)	March 4–8, 1:37 p.m.
Colorado	March 2–6, 1:45 p.m.
Connecticut	March 2–6, 2:00 p.m.
District of Columbia	March 3–6, 1:59 p.m.
Florida (Miami)	March 7–11, 1:58 p.m.
Florida (Tallahassee)	March6–9, 1:55 p.m.
Georgia	March 4–8, 1:55 p.m.
Hawaii	March 10–13, 1:16 p.m.
Iowa	March 2–5, 1:50 p.m.
Idaho	March 1–5, 1:40 p.m.
Illinois (Chicago)	March 2–5, 1:54 p.m.
Illinois (Springfield)	March 3–6, 1:52 p.m.
Indiana	March 3–6, 1:54 p.m.
Kansas	March 3–6, 1:48 p.m.
Kentucky	March 3–7, 1:55 p.m.
Louisiana	March 5–9, 1:51 p.m.
Massachusetts	March 2–5, 2:01 p.m.
Maryland	March 3–6, 1:59 p.m.
Maine	March 1–5, 2:02 p.m.
Michigan	March 2–5, 1:55 p.m.
Minnesota (St. Paul)	March 1–5, 1:51 p.m.
Missouri	March 3–6, 1:50 p.m.
Mississippi	March 5–8, 1:53 p.m.
Montana	March 1–4, 1:44 p.m.
North Carolina	March 4–7, 1:58 p.m.
North Dakota	February 28–March 4, 1:47 p.m.
Nebraska	March 2–5, 1:48 p.m.
New Hampshire	March 2–5, 2:00 p.m.
New Jersey	March 3–6, 2:00 p.m.
New Mexico	March 4–8, 1:43 p.m.
Nevada	March 3–6, 1:38 p.m.
New York	March 2–6, 2:00 p.m.
Ohio	March 3–6, 1:55 p.m.
Oklahoma	March 4–7, 1:48 p.m.
Oregon	March 1–5, 1:38 p.m.
Pennsylvania	March 2–6, 1:58 p.m.
Puerto Rico	March 10–13, 2:06 p.m.
South Carolina	March 4–8, 1:57 p.m.
South Dakota	March 1–5, 1:47 p.m.
Tennessee	March 4–8, 1:54 p.m.
Texas (Austin)	March 5–9, 1:48 p.m.
Texas (San Antonio)	March 6–9, 1:47 p.m.
Texas (Amarillo)	March 4–7, 1:45 p.m.
Utah	March 3–6, 1:41 p.m.
Virginia	March 3–7, 1:58 p.m.
Vermont	March 2–5, 2:00 p.m.
Washington	February 28–March 4, 1:38 p.m.
Wisconsin	March 2–5, 1:52 p.m.
West Virginia	March 3–6, 1:44 p.m.
Wyoming	March 2–5, 1:43 p.m.