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Service Change Notice 24-44 Updated

National Weather Service Headquarters Silver Spring MD

1200 PM EDT Wed May 15 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 to include language on a multi-hour pre-implementation test

and

correcting a typo in the IDP feedback email address.



On or about June 4, 2024, at 1430 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 12Z and 18Z, 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) or an Enhanced Caution

Event

(ECE), any changes will proceed within 5 business days after

expiration.

Users can find CWD/ECE 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/