Systems Upgrade May 27-29 - NOAA Weather Radio & Service Outage

Severe Thunderstorms in the Northern Plains and Upper Midwest; Critical Fire Weather in the West; Dangerous Heat in the Central and Eastern U.S.

Severe thunderstorms are likely today across the northern Plains and into the upper Mississippi Valley. Gusty winds and dry conditions will result in widespread critical fire weather through Saturday across parts of the Four Corners region and the Great Basin. A significant and dangerous heat wave will expand from the Central U.S. into the Eastern U.S this weekend through much of next week. Read More >

...SYSTEMS UPGRADE OUTAGE... The National Weather Service office in Seattle will be conducting a scheduled update to our Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS) starting the morning of Tuesday, May 27th through Thursday, May 29th. We will continue to maintain 24 by 7 operations here in Seattle including all forecasts and alerts as well as most routine products during this time. However, a few products and services will be unavailable during this upgrade including: * NOAA Weather Radio transmission will be unavailable for all or portions of this period. This will affect the normal Wednesday radio test. * Regional Temperature and Precipitation (RTP), Daily Climate (CLI), and Preliminary Monthly Climate Data (CF6) products will not be generated. * Locally generated graphics that display on our website will not be updated. We apologize for any inconvenience this temporary suspension of these products may cause. We encourage users in the area to have multiple ways to receive alerts and to ensure they have Wireless Emergency Alerts enabled on their phones. All observation data used to create the impacted climate text products will still be available for users throughout this time frame. Thank you for your patience while we complete this upgrade. For questions, please reach out to reid.wolcott@noaa.gov.