Scattered severe thunderstorms capable of damaging wind gusts and hail are forecast across the Northeast U.S. and North Dakota today. Heavy to excessive rainfall is possible over eastern New Mexico into western Texas and over the western Florida peninsula today. Critical fire weather conditions will persist today over parts of the interior Northwest and Great Basin. Read More >
NWS will be changing from primary to backup on or about the Monday of the second week of each month; returning to the primary configuration by the following Thursday. This timeline can be delayed or extended based on declared holidays and Critical Weather Days (https://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/cwd). (Oct 2019)
NWWS - Open Interface (NWWS-OI) transitioned:
Please reset your systems to properly connect to the current product stream.
Here are the top 6-reasons there may be an authentication failure;
Applications accessing resources on weather.gov need to provide a User-Agent header in any HTTP request. Requests without a user agent are automatically blocked. This policy is due to a small number of clients utilizing resources far in excess of what most would consider reasonable. We recommend providing a user agent string in the following format:
ApplicationName/vX.Y (http://your.app.url/
; contact.email@example.com
)
This will both uniquely identify your application and allow us to contact you and work with you if we observe abnormal application behavior that may result in a block.
WeatherSoftware/v2.0 (http://www.Weather Company XYZ.com/
; POC FirstName.POC Lastname@WeatherCompanyXYZ.com
)
WeatherSoftware/v2.0 (http://www.Weather Company XYZ.com/
; POC FirstName.POC Lastname@WeatherCompanyXYZ.com
; UserID Tracking # or e-mail)
MyJava/v7.1 (http://www.CompanyApp.com/
, personal URL or blank; Applicable Company POC@company.com
or personal e-mail)
Again, this will both uniquely identify the application used and allow us to contact you and work with you if we observe abnormal application behavior that may result in a block.
If after checking the above you still have an issue, use the NWWS Help e-mail (nwws.help@noaa.gov) to describe the error code you are receiving (or problem) and we will try to assist.
Remember: Only one (1) program on one (1) computer can use the assigned user_id and password to log into the NWWS Open Interface (OI). Violating this will crash your system(s).