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Arctic Chill in the East Followed by Strong Clipper Storm

Arctic air will continue below normal temperatures across the eastern half of the U.S. into Tuesday with heavy lake effect snow taking a short reprieve across the Great Lakes. A strengthening clipper storm will track north of the Great Lakes midweek with a widespread snow and gusty to strong winds through the region and into the Northeast U.S. followed by the potential for more lake effect snow. Read More >

 

Topic Description

General Description


A collective group of message dissemination systems used to provide weather, water and climate information to the United States and segments of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) International community. Systems include:

Systems Status information is manually updated M-F during Eastern Time business hours 8am-4pm.

System Information
ISCS GNC-A
Green Bullet showing operational status as good
GIFS
Green Bullet showing operational status as good
Updated 6/12/2023 13:52 UTC
Image of the GOES 16 Satellite with the earth below - NOAA Image


Advisories

09/11/2024 ISCS-0257

 

Mexico begins the international dissemination of the BUFR messages CLIMAT TEMP AND DAILY CLIMAT.

 

Hardware

Software

Format(s)

  • GNC-A and GIFS: WMO Standard alpha-numeric text, BUFR, GRIB, T4-FAX, and *.png/*.jpg/*.gif for imagery/graphic pictures, .bin for encapsulated imagery/graphics pictures.

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Monitoring

  • The GNC-A Satellite Broadcast: is monitored 24x7 by NESDIS for broadcast quality and availability of channel content. The NWS audits the data stream content on each of the NWS "ISCS-xxxxxxx" channels for consistency with the service's product baseline listing described in the ISCS product baseline and the NESDIS GNCA Product Catalog
  • The GIFS file service: is monitored 24x7 by the NWS NOAA Central Operations (NCO). The NWS audits the data content posting the file server monthly for consistency with the service's product listing described in the ISCS product baseline.

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Access Information

Documents

Alert Information

Special Needs

  • Users may interface their receiving systems with separate commercial or user-developed applications and devices to address their specific special needs.

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Issues

  • The status of the GNC-A broadcast and GIFS services is updated manually during normal business hours.
  • Service issues impacting user operations should be reported immediately to:

    Tech Control: Phone: 301-683-1518

    - or -

    eMail: SDM@noaa.gov ... and cc:

    iscs.dm@noaa.gov

  • Questions regarding the broadcast products, adding or replacing broadcast products or broadcast product format should be addressed to:

    iscs.dm@noaa.gov

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