Snow Continues in the Great Lakes; Above Normal Temperatures in the West

Lake effect snow will continue into the weekend as two more quick moving systems will bring widespread snow to the Upper Great Lakes. High winds are expected across portions of Montana through the weekend. Below normal temperatures will remain in place across much of the southern and eastern U.S., while the western U.S. will experience above normal temperatures. 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.

Format https://docs.oasis-open.org/emergency/cap/v1.2/CAP-v1.2.html

NWS Source https://alerts.weather.gov/ (NWWS FAQ #5 for NWS Message IDs)

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

Snow Continues in the Great Lakes; Above Normal Temperatures in the West

NWS Formats