[Skywarn] Fwd: Sign Up to Continue to Receive GovDelivery Weather Updates

[Lloyd Colston]

Please note these changes in public alerting at the Federal level.

Lloyd



---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: GovDelivery Weather Updates <weatherupdates at public.govdelivery.com>
Date: Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 2:23 PM
Subject: Sign Up to Continue to Receive GovDelivery Weather Updates
To: kc5fm at juno.com


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<https://public.govdelivery.com/accounts/GOVDUSNWS/subscriber/new>!”
button below and select the relevant content that you wish to receive. New
updates will come from GovDelivery Weather Updates –
weatherupdates at public.govdelivery.com .

[image: GovDelivery Weather
Updates]<https://public.govdelivery.com/accounts/GOVDUSNWS/subscriber/new>




**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




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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

   Mark.Paese at noaa.gov



National Service Change Notices are online at:



     http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm