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Service Change Notice 24-44 Updated
National Weather Service Headquarters Silver Spring MD
200 PM EDT Tue Jun 4 2024

To: Subscribers:
 -NOAA Weather Wire Service
 -Emergency Managers Weather Information Network
 -NOAAPort
 Other NWS Partners, Users and Employees

From: Ben Kyger
 Director, NCEP Central Operations

Subject: Updated: Migrate NWS weather.gov Website to New
 Infrastructure and Decommission Websites/URLs,
 Effective June 4, 2024

Updated the Enhanced Caution Event (ECE) language to clarify the
go-live
proceeded June 4 at 1230 UTC.

On June 4, 2024, at 1230 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the
National
Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) Central Operations (NCO)
will
migrate the National Weather Services (NWS) Website,
https://weather.gov/,
including all Weather Forecast Offices (WFOs), River Forecast Centers
(RFCs), Center Weather Service Units (CWSUs), and National Program
Web
Pages, to new infrastructure and decommission legacy URLs.

On Monday, May 20, 2024, between 12 UTC and 18 UTC, the weather.gov
website and all nested web pages will be served from the new
infrastructure for a pre-implementation test. During this test, users
may
experience any of the changes documented in this notice below. Report
any
issues to the NCEP Operational Monitoring Branch at nco.ops@noaa.gov.

In the event of a Critical Weather Day (CWD), any changes will
proceed
within 5 business days after expiration. Users can find CWD status at
the
link below and should monitor the weather.gov website headline for
updated
notifications.
 https://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/status/cwd/


1) Changes to the Website
The migration to new infrastructure will result in minor changes to
user
experience and functionality, with the overall intent to limit the
changes
to only those required by upgraded hardware/software.

Some software code is not backward compatible and as a result, some
office
web pages may experience:
 - Broken links
 - Special characters appearing as ?
 - Non-functioning features like graphics, emojis, loops, or icons
 - Text formatting display issues
 - Navigation arrows not properly displayed
The website consists of over 13,000 web pages, the NWS will continue
efforts to resolve the issues identified. For more details on these
issues
see:
   https://weather.gov/idp/wxgovmigration

2) Decommissioning
A) The URL https://w1.weather.gov will be decommissioned.
 - https://w1.weather.gov/data/obhistory/SITE.html will become
https://forecast.weather.gov/data/obhistory/SITE.html where SITE is
different observation stations.
 - The NWS Glossary will be moved from:
https://w1.weather.gov/glossary to
https://forecast.weather.gov/glossary.php
 - The XML Observation Webpage will be moved from:
https://w1.weather.gov/xml/current_obs to
https://forecast.weather.gov/xml/current_obs
Unless otherwise specified above, users should update any bookmarks
to
point to:
   https://weather.gov

B) Automatic redirects of legacy web pages
 - See the link below for a list of all automatic redirects that are
being removed and will no longer work. Users should update all
bookmarks
to the new website URL.
 - An example of this would be:
https://www.nws.noaa.gov will no longer redirect to
https://weather.gov
See below for a full list of redirects:
https://weather.gov/idp/wxgovmigration

For problems or operational issues with the Website, please contact:
 NCEP Central Operations
 Tech Control
 nco.ops@noaa.gov

For questions about the details of the migration in this notice,
please
contact:
 NCEP Central Operations
 Implementation and Data Services Branch, Onboarding Team
 idp.feedback@noaa.gov
or
 nws.webfeedback@noaa.gov

National Service Change Notices are online at:

https://www.weather.gov/notification/