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NWS Forecast looks down
« on: April 19, 2020, 12:31:32 PM »
Not sure if anyone else is seeing the same.  But my forecast is showing down.

"Sorry.. the forecast for Bismarck is not available at this time.

NWS server has an error.

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Re: NWS Forecast looks down
« Reply #1 on: April 19, 2020, 12:33:07 PM »
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Re: NWS Forecast looks down
« Reply #2 on: April 19, 2020, 12:47:56 PM »
Well, it came back.  I guess it was a short glitch.
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Re: NWS Forecast looks down
« Reply #3 on: April 19, 2020, 04:35:45 PM »
Keep in mind that the advforecast2.php script (V5.x) uses api.weather.gov for data.  The forecast.weather.gov site does not.. it uses the current production system.  They are still refining/massaging/updating the API and sometimes, data gets lost/stale between the current production system and the API .. that's when you see the message and a failover to the Zone forecast in the advforecast2.php script.

If the outage is shown more than a few hours, I'd suggest calling the WFO listed and let them know.. they can get the GFS data reloaded to the API usually.
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