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Excessive Rainfall Possible for the Gulf Coast and Florida; October Heat Wave in California

A slow moving front will be the focus area for heavy to excessive rainfall and a threat for flash/urban flooding across parts of the Gulf Coast into central/northern Florida early this week. Abnormally hot, potentially record-breaking, temperatures will continue for southern California and stretch north toward the Bay Area and Central Valley this week. Read More >

WMO Standard Format

 

Default NWS text format in use for over 25-years. Used in SBN/NOAAPORT product streams (Channels 101-108 and 201), over EMWIN (GOES platforms), and on weather.gov.
https://www.weather.gov/tg/headef


XMPP Header wrapped WMO Standard Format

Latest format since July 2015 for text weather information, alerts and warnings via NWWS-Open Interface.  Here are some notes for developers; 

https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0131.html


Common Alert Protocol (CAP V1.2) Format
Alerts and warnings only format; available over SBN/NOAAPORT Channels 101-108 and on weather.gov.

WARNING: CAP v1.1 should not be used to activate local EAS equipment.


NWS also has the following XML feed formats for Alerts and Warnings;

        ATOM Feed
        https://alerts.weather.gov/

        RSS Feed
        https://www.weather.gov/rss