meteorologist Posted November 17, 2012 Share Posted November 17, 2012 From: "GovDelivery Weather Updates" <[email protected]> To: Subject: Sign Up to Continue to Receive GovDelivery Weather Updates Date: Friday, November 16, 2012 3:28 PM Dear NOAA's National Weather Service Email and SMS/Text Subscribers, We understand you rely on the important weather updates that were offered by the NOAA’s National Weather Service (NWS). The NWS recently discontinued this service due to fiscal challenges per the public notice that was issued on November 9, 2012, copied below. Given the number of individuals and organizations that benefit from these updates, GovDelivery has decided to continue the service (of both email and SMS/text updates without disruption) for a grace period of the next 30 days. After the 30-day grace period, in support of our vision of promoting world-class connections between Government and citizens we have decided to provide weather updates directly from GovDelivery as a free community service. If you wish to continue receiving the same vital weather-related notifications using unaltered NWS products* beyond the next 30 days, you will need to opt in to the service offered by GovDelivery by clicking the “Continue My Weather Updates!” button below and select the relevant content that you wish to receive. New updates will come from GovDelivery Weather Updates – [email protected] . This essential public service offered by GovDelivery uses publicly-available, authoritative data sources issued directly by the NOAA’s National Weather Service (NWS). Thank you GovDelivery Client Service Team www.govdelivery.com NOUS41 KWBC 092039 Amended PNSWSH Public Information Notice National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC 340 PM EST Fri Nov 9 2012 To: Subscribers: -Family of Services -NOAA Weather Wire Service -Emergency Managers Weather Information Network -NOAAPORT Other NWS Partners, Users and Employees From: Kolly Mars Chief, NWS Internet Dissemination System Subject: GovDelivery Dissemination of NWS Alerts by email/SMS SCN 12-43 issued on November 8, 2012, indicated that effective November 8, 2012, NWS is discontinuing the weather alert services associated with the mass email/SMS service provided under NWS contract with GovDelivery. This service had been provided by free subscription on www.weather.gov The National Weather Service contract with EFIIA Consulting, LLC (GovDelivery service) is scheduled to terminate effective November 13, 2012. While the service provided by GovDelivery under the contract has met all government requirements, current fiscal challenges require the NWS to review dissemination methods to ensure the most efficient means are used to provide the public with essential services. It is our understanding that GovDelivery, Inc. intends to continue an equivalent service and enable additional subscriptions through their company Website at: http://govdelivery.com/ GovDelivery intends to send current subscribers a message that will provide subscribers an opportunity to re-subscribe to the new service. A small number of subscribers who were recipients of non-publicly available messages will receive a separate notification from the NWS provider of this information regarding the delivery status of these messages. The NWS will continue to provide alert and warning information in standard formats (such as RSS, XML, REST, and CAP), which are available to all users, including commercial providers who wish to develop comparable alerting services. A sample listing of existing services providing email/SMS alerts for weather events, is available at: www.weather.gov/subscribe Official dissemination sources including NOAA Weather Radio, NOAA Weather Wire Service, and www.weather.gov will continue to be available to the public, and the iNWS service http://inws.wrh.noaa.gov/ for emergency managers and other core partners will also continue. For more information please contact: Mark Paese Director, Office of Operational Systems 1325 East West Hwy Silver Spring, MD 20910 [email protected] National Service Change Notices are online at: http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm $$ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://whois.domaintools.com/govdelivery.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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