Topic: advforecast2.php (JSON) V5.13 update for NWS change 01-Oct-2019

[saratogaWX]

The NWS has announced the shutdown of the forecast-v3.weather.gov website effective 01-Oct-2019.
The V5.13 of the script changes the link URL at the bottom of the page to use forecast.weather.gov/MapClick... links instead.  It continues to use api.weather.gov for the data source (as that is not being discontinued).

Standalone: use https://saratoga-weather.org/scripts-carterlake.php for download.
Template: use https://saratoga-weather.org/wxtemplates/updates.php with a query of Base-USA, *-Plugin, 08-Sep-2019 for download.

Best regards,
Ken

[chief-david]

Does this mean the Hazardous weather statements are dead?

[saratogaWX]

The  Advisory/Watch/Warn info still comes from api.weather.gov (same as the forecast info) and are unaffected by the shutdown of the display site forecast-v3.weather.gov.

Keep in mind that Outlook type advisories (like Hazardous Weather Outlook) do not appear in the API (but may or may not appear in the future) -- that's an NWS choice.

The nws-alerts set of scripts uses the CAP/ATOM (XML) feeds from alerts.weather.gov and so continues to display all available alerts.

[Jasiu]

Well, they are available in the API via

Code: [Select]

https://api.weather.gov/products/types/HWO/locations/{office code}
It's just that the hazardous outlook product has been separated from the forecast now (which is probably the right thing).

If someone really wants to have it look like it does in the old (HTML scraper) code, it can be done.

[miraculon]

Thanks again, Ken for keeping us up to date.

Greg H.

[ValentineWeather]

Thanks as always Ken for keeping up with the changes.