Scheduled system maintenance and outage June 2-4

WFO Fairbanks Scheduled System Maintenance and Outage June 2-4, 2025

The National Weather Service (NWS) Fairbanks will conduct a required and scheduled upgrade to the Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS) from Monday, June 2 through Wednesday, June 4. AWIPS is the primary system used to display and integrate weather and water data and to disseminate life-saving information such as warnings and advisories to the public.

To ensure continuity of operations during this upgrade, forecast services will temporarily be conducted by NWS Fairbanks meteorologists from the NWS Anchorage Forecast Office. No disruptions to core forecast services, including weather watches, warnings, advisories, and routine forecast products, are expected.

However, limited impacts will occur to the following services:

• NOAA Weather Radio transmitters maintained by NWS Fairbanks will be off the air throughout the update. This includes transmitters in:

  • Fairbanks (WXJ81)

  • Utqiagvik (KZZ53)

  • Nome (WXJ62)

  • Kotzebue (KWN30)

  • Nenana (KPS504)

        Note: The routine weekly NOAA Weather Radio test scheduled for Wednesday, June 4 will not occur.

• Alaska Weather Information Line recordings for Northern Alaska forecasts and observations will not be updated during the upgrade.

• Local climate summaries (CLI and CF6 products) will not be updated, but data will be backfilled as soon as the system is restored.

• Automated graphics, such as those created for the Denali National Park and Preserve DSS Briefing Page, will not be updated until AWIPS service resumes.

Customers of the NOAA Weather Radio and the Alaska Weather Information Line phone service should plan to use alternative forecast resources during this period, including:

• forecasts and observations online at: weather.gov/fairbanks
• local radio stations

The NWS Fairbanks office will remain open and staffed throughout this period to respond to phone calls from the public and partners, and to support any tasks not dependent on the AWIPS system.

For questions regarding this scheduled upgrade and associated service impacts, please contact us at:
📧 nws.ar.pafg.webauthors@noaa.gov