Topic: worldextremes.php script problem. NCEP site unavailable

[saratogaWX]

I notice that worldextremes.php was having issues loading data from https://www.ncep.noaa.gov/ (actually from https://ftp.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/cadb_v2/daily/ ) with long timeouts.

Hopefully, the NWS will fix that.  Meanwhile, change the script to a longer cache life to have that page (or your site, if you'd used it in the menubar.php) work again.

Change worldextremes.php

$cache_life = 3600*6;

to

$cache_life = 3600*24;

  Hopefully theyll get it fixed tomorrow...

[saratogaWX]

The NWS had a major outage yesterday due to a chiller malfunction and over-temp issues.  They are recovering systems so should be back functioning today.

Several storage systems in the College Park data center remain down after Monday afternoon's temperature spike.
Systems have been automatically repairing themselves overnight, but NCO's NetApp Team are working to provide an estimate of when storage systems will be fully recovered.
Additional support was engaged overnight to keep IDP Applications running in Boulder healthy and to investigate mitigating impacts to WPC and OPC operations.
No ETR at this time.
Next update will be at 8am EDT.
Current Known Impacts include:
NCEP Centers' websites hosted in CP are currently inaccessible (including NCO, OPC, EMC, CPC, and NCWCP intranet sites)
WPC, OPC, and CPC's operational product suites are severely degraded
FTPPRD is inaccessible in CP (Customers are able to use nomads.ncep.noaa.gov as a viable backup in the meantime)
See the NCO IT Status Dashboard for the latest updates and more information


SDM Mary Beth

[CNYWeather]

Ahh. I was trying to figure out what was up with my site. I totally removed the menubar.php and it worked.
Then I started removing things like the extremes until the was functioning again.

[saratogaWX]

Looks like they've restored functionality to the NCEP site.

You can put

$cache_life = 3600*6;

back into worldextremes.php script -- it is getting data again.