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#1 Postby Cookiely » Thu Dec 29, 2005 5:38 pm

What does this mean? I went to see the Florida weather discussion and the following was above the discussion.

IWIN has been proposed for termination. NOAA's NWS will be accepting
comments on the proposed termination until January 31, 2006. Please learn
more about the termination and how to leave a comment here
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#2 Postby senorpepr » Thu Dec 29, 2005 6:10 pm

Cookiely wrote:What does this mean? I went to see the Florida weather discussion and the following was above the discussion.

IWIN has been proposed for termination. NOAA's NWS will be accepting
comments on the proposed termination until January 31, 2006. Please learn
more about the termination and how to leave a comment here


NWS is planning on ending the IWIN program.

Basically, after January 31st, this website will no longer exist: http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/iwin/main.html
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#3 Postby Cookiely » Thu Dec 29, 2005 7:34 pm

senorpepr wrote:
Cookiely wrote:What does this mean? I went to see the Florida weather discussion and the following was above the discussion.

IWIN has been proposed for termination. NOAA's NWS will be accepting
comments on the proposed termination until January 31, 2006. Please learn
more about the termination and how to leave a comment here


NWS is planning on ending the IWIN program.

Basically, after January 31st, this website will no longer exist: http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/iwin/main.html

Thanks for the explanation. That's too bad because the graphics look great.
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#4 Postby TexasStooge » Thu Dec 29, 2005 10:14 pm

Cookiely wrote:
senorpepr wrote:
Cookiely wrote:What does this mean? I went to see the Florida weather discussion and the following was above the discussion.

IWIN has been proposed for termination. NOAA's NWS will be accepting
comments on the proposed termination until January 31, 2006. Please learn
more about the termination and how to leave a comment here


NWS is planning on ending the IWIN program.

Basically, after January 31st, this website will no longer exist: http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/iwin/main.html

Thanks for the explanation. That's too bad because the graphics look great.


Save them while they're still on.

I got the exact same message when I was looking at the Texas Weather Summaries.
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#5 Postby wx247 » Thu Dec 29, 2005 10:21 pm

That is my favorite website to gather a lot of weather data quickly, especially when severe weather is occuring across multiple CWA's. I am upset by the fact that it will be terminated. I am curious as to why they are getting rid of it. I imagine it is a cost cutting measure.
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#6 Postby Brent » Thu Dec 29, 2005 10:35 pm

I remember 3-4 years ago when it was supposed to be terminated and it never was... but this time it looks for real. I use it a lot(it's the easiest way to get hourly obs/zone forecasts and AFD's).
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#7 Postby TexasStooge » Thu Dec 29, 2005 10:44 pm

wx247 wrote:That is my favorite website to gather a lot of weather data quickly, especially when severe weather is occuring across multiple CWA's. I am upset by the fact that it will be terminated. I am curious as to why they are getting rid of it. I imagine it is a cost cutting measure.


I think they're trying to interline the information from IWIN to their main NWS site.
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#8 Postby wx247 » Fri Dec 30, 2005 11:27 am

TexasStooge wrote:
wx247 wrote:That is my favorite website to gather a lot of weather data quickly, especially when severe weather is occuring across multiple CWA's. I am upset by the fact that it will be terminated. I am curious as to why they are getting rid of it. I imagine it is a cost cutting measure.


I think they're trying to interline the information from IWIN to their main NWS site.


Well, I find trying to gather info over a multiple CWA painful when trying to look through all the NWS pages, whereas I can just get all my information by state through IWIN. I am just one among many and I imagine that there is nothing I can do to stop them now.
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#10 Postby arlwx » Thu Jan 12, 2006 9:09 am

One substitute site for the text version of IWIN:

http://www.weather.gov/view/
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#11 Postby jasons2k » Thu Jan 12, 2006 2:22 pm

Please PLEASE send comments. It may not do much, but at least we can try.

Funny how the IWIN home page states over 10,000 websites link to it. That alone is reason enough to keep it IMO.
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