Topic: Curly's Wx Story script

[saratogaWX]

It's them... see https://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/status/messages/ for status.  Last status said

SENIOR DUTY METEOROLOGIST NWS ADMINISTRATIVE MESSAGE
NWS NCEP CENTRAL OPERATIONS COLLEGE PARK MD
0142Z FRI MAR 05 2021

The 00Z NCEP model production suite is currently running on time.

00Z NAM RAOB RECAP...
91334/TKK - Purged temp/moisture 600-319...spurious temps
70414/SYA - 10159
76405/LAP - 10158
72694/SLE - Part A missing


WEATHER STORY GRAPHICS UPDATE...

Multiple NCO teams remain engaged in troubleshooting an issue
with Weather Story Graphics not updating on WFO websites. No ETR.



Gerhardt/SDM/NCO/NCEP

[92merc]

I noticed my pictures not updating too.  But If I click on the title bar, it'll suddenly load the pic just fine.

[saratogaWX]

Looks like the NCO OPS found the 'magic sauce' to apply

SENIOR DUTY METEOROLOGIST NWS ADMINISTRATIVE MESSAGE
NWS NCEP CENTRAL OPERATIONS COLLEGE PARK MD
1643Z FRI MAR 05 2021


...WEATHER STORY WEB POSTING RESTORED...

The earlier problem with Weather Stories have been resolved.

If users experience further issues, please contact Tech
Control by email at nco.ops@noaa.gov or by phone at
301-683-1518.


Shruell/SDM/NCO/NCEP

[gwwilk]

Great! Thanks, Ken.

[Silversword]

Hi All,

Still waiting for Hawaii to come aboard on this subject.

We had an tsunami alert from the New Zealand 8.1 earthquake yesterday. Nothing reached here.  Its a good thing.

Aloha,

--Stan Y.
   Maui, Hawaii

[rrrick8]

As a side, if you didn't know, the Western Region Headquarters has a National Weather Story Map where at a glance you can see which site is active. If you see the common black square with writing, which is predominate in the west on the below image, the Wxstory hasn't been issued today yet.
https://www.weather.gov/wrh/weatherstory_map

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[gwwilk]

Unfortunately the map doesn't display the ND WFO's and the Duluth WFO.  What's more, the 'black' images in the WRH WFO's aren't current at this time.  Those Weather Stories are actually there right now.

It's a nice idea, but the implementation is lacking. 

[chief-david]

As a side, if you didn't know, the Western Region Headquarters has a National Weather Story Map where at a glance you can see which site is active. If you see the common black square with writing, which is predominate in the west on the below image, the Wxstory hasn't been issued today yet.
https://www.weather.gov/wrh/weatherstory_map

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I love how the pic for Des Moines is in western Iowa. West of Denison in the Bluffs.

[rrrick8]

Unfortunately the map doesn't display the ND WFO's and the Duluth WFO.  What's more, the 'black' images in the WRH WFO's aren't current at this time.  Those Weather Stories are actually there right now.

It's a nice idea, but the implementation is lacking. 

My reference to it is use of being a quick reference to be able to see if it is a national outage as opposed to specific WFO. No, you can see from the time stamps that many are not current.

I love how the pic for Des Moines is in western Iowa. West of Denison in the Bluffs.

I'm sure that is done just so not to cover other WFO pics.

[rrrick8]

So I see now that all of the east coast has a wxStory but is formatted a bit different that the script doesn't fetch the images and text.
Anyone up to updating the wxStory_inc.php script to fetch their data as well. Don't think it would take a lot. Just adding a way to look for their preg_match  identifyers as well. Above my pay grade though. I'll be happy to update the map with all green in the eastern region if completed.

[scudwatcher]

Ok, I have installed this script on my page at https://csraweather.org.  The script says my local forecast office KCAE (Columbia , S.C. WFO) does not have a Weather Story.  When I log on to weather.gov/cae, there is a Weather Story on the website.  Could someone please advise?  Thank You in advance!

[tmabell]

See the post above, right before yours.

[92merc]

You should have both the wxstory.php file and wxStory-inc.php. 

Inside the INC file at the top, there is a $NWSregion.  That should be set to 'cae'.  Once set, that is usually it.

[scudwatcher]

Thank you, Sir!  I will double check my configs….

[tmabell]

I hate to be redundant but sometimes posts get overlooked.  Please peruse the earlier post by rrrick8.  There is no way presently to add an Eastern Region WFO's Weather Story to this script.

[scudwatcher]

Thanks for the update, oh well….

[W Thomas]

Are we still unable to include the Eastern office's Weather Story Data?

[gwwilk]

Melbourne, FL is the only 'red' WFO on the map in the Eastern offices' that currently has a weather story, so no. And it's a shame that not more WFO's in the East publish a weather story.

[rrrick8]

Melbourne, FL is the only 'red' WFO on the map in the Eastern offices' that currently has a weather story, so no. And it's a shame that not more WFO's in the East publish a weather story.

I check the eastern region often and it now seems like most of them DO have a weatherstory page but something in the code (above my paygrade) is not identifying it and displaying it.

[gwwilk]

They seem to be following the beats of their own drummers.  Here's State College's offering for example.

How is Curly's script going to accommodate this slide show?

[rrrick8]

They seem to be following the beats of their own drummers.  Here's State College's offering for example.

How is Curly's script going to accommodate this slide show?

It's a gif so think that wouldn't be a great deterrence.

[gwwilk]

They seem to be following the beats of their own drummers.  Here's State College's offering for example.

How is Curly's script going to accommodate this slide show?

It's a gif so think that wouldn't be a great deterrence.

I look forward to seeing your work. 

[W Thomas]

I have noticed my office rnk has started having a story but I don’t know
if it’s a permanent thing or they are just experimenting with it. I’ll try to pay closer attention
and see if it returns

[rrrick8]

They seem to be following the beats of their own drummers.  Here's State College's offering for example.

How is Curly's script going to accommodate this slide show?

It's a gif so think that wouldn't be a great deterrence.

I look forward to seeing your work. 

My point is that gifs are already used by some sites in their weather stories. Usually animated radar. So it seems that the script already handles gif images. As i said. Above my paygrade though.

[gwwilk]

I took a look and it's also definitely above my pay grade.  There are some gurus on this site who might be able task it, but their time is their own.