How to get NOAA to wake up

Anyone have other ideas or an email address for someone who wil get this problem corrected?

On Friday, April 13, 2018 at 7:50:53 PM UTC-7, wrote:
On Friday, April 13, 2018 at 7:34:11 PM UTC-7, Jonathan St. Cloud wrote:
The soaring forecast for the San Diego area and particular Warner Springs, has been screwed up for weeks. The trigger temp and max temp get set on a value and stay on that value for a week. Will have the correct input usually on Sunday, then a week of useless data again. Anyway to get the guys in charge of the soaring forecast model to actually look at their data and see if the max temp and trigger temp update daily!

I have sent several e-mails about this. The replies have stopped. The forecast is now stuck on the 4/3 6AM forecast. Send e-mail to Your tax dollars at work.

Steve

They are working with personnel and budget cuts. Soaring forecasts are not a priority.

Complain to orange Voldemort and his cronies who cut the budget!

Mike

I have found the San Diego NWS to be very responsive. Here is the reply that I received:

Hi Bob,
We regret the down time. The programmer who can fix this is on vacation and will be able to address this upon return, probably 23 April or so.


Miguel Miller

On Monday, April 16, 2018 at 12:07:48 PM UTC-7, wrote:
I have found the San Diego NWS to be very responsive. Here is the reply that I received:

Hi Bob,
We regret the down time. The programmer who can fix this is on vacation and will be able to address this upon return, probably 23 April or so.


Miguel Miller

This is what I got from them. I read this as "don't use our web site, use this other one so we don't have to fix our problem".

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