Hi All,
We noticed something and wondered if anyone else on here had encountered
this and/or has an idea what's happening.
Beginning on Saturday, September 7, some time after 0500 UTC, our requests
began receiving NDFD XML output from the NCEP SOAP Service which has the
forecast for previous day(s). For example, our query at 1240 UTC on Sep 7
yielded XML like this:
<creation-date
refresh-frequency="PT30M">2024-09-07T12:15:07Z</creation-date>
[...]
<time-layout time-coordinate="local" summarization="12hourly">
<layout-key>k-p24h-n7-1</layout-key>
<start-valid-time
period-name="Friday">2024-09-06T06:00:00-05:00</start-valid-time>
<end-valid-time>2024-09-06T18:00:00-05:00</end-valid-time>
<start-valid-time
period-name="Saturday">2024-09-07T06:00:00-05:00</start-valid-time>
<end-valid-time>2024-09-07T18:00:00-05:00</end-valid-time>
<start-valid-time
period-name="Sunday">2024-09-08T06:00:00-05:00</start-valid-time>
<end-valid-time>2024-09-08T18:00:00-05:00</end-valid-time>
Note that it still included Friday.
Queries to this service from earlier today (Friday) yielded similar
strange results:
<creation-date
refresh-frequency="PT30M">2024-09-13T19:05:27Z</creation-date>
[...]
<time-layout time-coordinate="local" summarization="12hourly">
<layout-key>k-p24h-n7-1</layout-key>
<start-valid-time
period-name="Tomorrow">2024-09-12T06:00:00-05:00</start-valid-time>
<end-valid-time>2024-09-12T18:00:00-05:00</end-valid-time>
<start-valid-time
period-name="Friday">2024-09-13T06:00:00-05:00</start-valid-time>
<end-valid-time>2024-09-13T18:00:00-05:00</end-valid-time>
<start-valid-time
period-name="Saturday">2024-09-14T06:00:00-05:00</start-valid-time>
<end-valid-time>2024-09-14T18:00:00-05:00</end-valid-time>
<start-valid-time
period-name="Sunday">2024-09-15T06:00:00-05:00</start-valid-time>
<end-valid-time>2024-09-15T18:00:00-05:00</end-valid-time>
We haven't seen any recent NWS change notices which appeared to apply to
this service, nor any admin messages even remotely related, so we're at a
loss.
Jared
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Jared P Bostic
OCS/Mesonet Operations
