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Severe Thunderstorms Across Portions of the Midwest; Hazardous Heat in Southern Texas

A Moderate Risk (Level 4 of 5) of severe thunderstorms is expected across the Midwest today, especially portions of Iowa, Missouri, Wisconsin and Illinois. Damaging winds, large hail and a few strong tornadoes are expected. A dangerous early season heat wave will continue this week and expand from south Texas through portions of the central Gulf Coast by this weekend. Read More >

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Changes to NWS Forecast & Marine Pages as of April 30

Weather.gov > Integrated Dissemination Program > Changes to NWS Forecast & Marine Pages as of April 30

NWS forecast.weather.gov and marine.weather.gov pages moved to the Integrated Dissemination Program (IDP) on April 30, 2024 as referenced in SCN 24-30.

Please see below for a detailed list of expected differences, known issues, and resolutions.

Resolved Issues

The following previously reported known issues have been resolved.

  • 15 May 2024: 7-day "Printable Forecast" link no longer has missing icons that break the page formatting.
  • 15 May 2024: Hourly Weather Graph page no longer returns a 500 error when the wind gust grid is missing for the period displayed.
  • 14 May 2024: digitalDWML and digitalJSON forecast requests now return data. There is a redirect involved so customers may need to account for that change in requests.
  • 9 May 2024: Links on forecast.weather.gov/product.php for navigating version and options are all working.
  • 9 May 2024: Web pages that use forecast.weather.gov or marine.weather.gov in an iframe are no longer being blocked.
  • 9 May 2024: Observations should no longer be intermittently missing when they exist.

Expected Differences

The following differences are changes that are expected in the IDP version of the application.

  • Mobile Weather link to mobile.weather.gov web page has been removed.
  • En Español link to the Spanish translation of the forecast page has been removed.
  • Slight variations in appearance, including different shades of colors, different spacing, and boxing of some sections of the page.
  • Address for the local Weather Forecast Office (WFO) that oversees the location (either zone or point) for the forecast will appear in the footer of the page.
  • The pages accessed by the links “More Local Wx”, “3 Day History”, and “Hourly Weather Forecast” are updated to remove the old page style and match the rest of the application.  The "3 Day History" page is now hosted on forecast.weather.gov.
  • In the Extended Forecast section, the data under the images for Today/Tonight/Tomorrow etc will switch positions - temperatures will now appear above the description of the weather.
  • The wind values in the conversion to the metric version of the “3 Day History” section have been corrected.
  • The ‘Back to Previous Page’ button in the “More Local Wx” page has been removed.
  • The map showing the area of interest for the Marine forecasts will enable movement via click & drag and zooming in and out only - extra buttons for incremental movement of the map in cardinal directions have been removed.
  • The json output option for marine points corrects a bug in the indentation from tabs to spaces, which now aligns with land points.
  • The dwml output option for marine points corrects the current observations indentation to remove tabs, which now aligns with land points.
  • The "Additional Headlines" link no longer appears on the forecast page for local office headlines when there are no other headlines to show.
  • Forecasts within Southern Region WFOs now show their local office headlines at the top of the page instead of the national headline.
  • marine.weather.gov does not redirect to forecast.weather.gov for land points and forecast.weather.gov does not redirect to marine.weather.gov for marine points (just displays the forecast for that point under the url entered).
  • Marine forecast wording may be different.

Known Issues

The following known issues have tickets open with developers.

  • Emoji characters in news headlines show up as question marks.
  • These forecast types from MapClick.php are not functional: mgraphical, wxplan.
  • The activity planner returns 500 errors due to wxplan issue above, i.e., all WFOs on https://forecast.weather.gov/wxplanner.php?site=eka
  • Links to forecast.weather.gov/product.php that include glossary=1 in the url parameters do not work and return a 500 error.
  • Missing zone in CWF text product will result in 503 error for that marine forecast zone instead of displaying a page with blank data.
  • The printable forecast for Marine locations will display imagery that is consistent with land printable forecasts.
  • The St. Lawrence River is missing on the watch/warning map background images.
  • The "All current RSS files" (all_rss.zip) and "All current XML files" (all_xml.zip) links on forecast.weather.gov/xml/current_obs do not exist.
  • The "Select City/Location" dialog is missing on the "Interactive Point Forecast" pages (i.e., forecast.weather.gov/gridpoint.php?site=okx&TypeDefault=graphical).
  • Formatting of forecast pages is affected when a WR observation is missing: the page header (with new headlines/office identification) and page footer navigation menu will be missing. Also, the observation icon will be a broken image.
  • Blank first page from "Print" option on text products product.php page.
  • Printable version produces text that is too small.
  • 3-day observation history link now displays some Fahrenheit temperatures out to the tenths place and altimeter rounded to whole number or tenths place.
  • Forecast MapClick.php text page may return 500 error when missing wind grids instead of reverting to zone forecast.
  • Forecast MapClick.php text page may return 500 error when bad observation data from the closest station.
  • Hourly Weather Graph, Tabular Forecast, and Printable Forecast pages break responsive design on smaller screens such as mobile devices.  Workaround is to select "View in Desktop Mode" at the bottom of the page.

Last Updated: 15 May 2024

 

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