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Public Information Statement
National Weather Service Albany NY
1008 AM EDT Mon May 19 2025

...Statement on AWIPS Update/Outage...

The National Weather Service Forecast Office in Albany New York
will be conducting a required, scheduled update to their Advanced
Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS) system from June 16,
2025 at 7 AM through approximately June 18, 2025 at 4 PM. The NWS
uses the AWIPS computer system to display and integrate weather
and water information, and to send life-saving information, such
as weather and water warnings, to the public.

During the time of the update, forecast operations will be
conducted by NWS Albany staff at our service back-up office in
Burlington Vermont to minimize any potential interruption to
services. No impacts to our core services of forecast products and
weather watches, warnings and advisories are expected during this
period. However, limited impacts will occur to the following
services:

NOAA Weather Radio Transmitters: All NOAA Weather Radio
transmitters maintained by NWS Albany will be off air through the
time of the update. This includes the following transmitters in
New York: KSC43 (Gore Mtn), WXL34 (Albany), WXL37 (Highland) and
WXM45 (Middleville). In Connecticut: WWH33 (Cornwall) and in
Massachusetts: WWF48 (Mt Greylock) and WXM68 (Leyden).

Local graphical forecast maps that are hosted in numerous places
on www.weather.gov/aly will not be updated. This includes all maps
on the Graphical Hazardous Weather Outlook page.
The majority of the graphics on the New York State Briefing
Graphics page will be down for about 24 hours from June 16 into
June 17.

The local climate summaries will not be updated on June
16 and 17, but data will be backfilled when our AWIPS system
returns to service.

KENX WSR-88D data is expected to remain up, but a few brief
outages are possible.

The forecast office in Albany New York will remain open and
staffed throughout this period for public and partner phone calls
and additional functions that can be completed without AWIPS.

If you have questions, please contact Christopher Gitro,
Meteorologist-in-Charge, at (518) 626-7541 or at
christopher.gitro@noaa.gov.

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