AUSTIN (KXAN) — It acts like a radio station, but it doesn’t play music. Instead, NOAA Weather Radio dispenses daily weather information including current conditions, local forecasts and weather synopses. It also sends out weather alerts in the event of a storm.
From now through Wednesday the NOAA Weather Radio serving the Austin/San Antonio area will be off the air because it’s doing a software update to the Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System, or AWIPS. This will happen from June 9-11, and the best way to stay weather-aware during this time is to keep up with KXAN.
AWIPS is used by meteorologists at the National Weather Service to communicate and display meteorological data that assists forecasters to make accurate predictions of the weather and to dispense rapid warnings. The updates being done early this week are to fix those pesky bugs that sometimes affect computers, add new features, and infrastructure improvements that allow the system to do those accurate forecasts.
So, how can you still get those reliable messages from the National Weather Service? Forecast operations will be handled during these three days by the Corpus Christi National Weather Service office. This is being done to minimize any possible service interruptions.
More importantly, it won’t affect how you get important weather information from the KXAN First Warning Weather Team. There are no interruptions that affect how we impart weather information to you.
You can still rely on our team of meteorologists to give you accurate forecasts and any advisories, watches and/or warnings during these times since we are expecting a few days of showers and thunderstorms.
And, as always, our KXAN Weather App is always a source of weather information should you need it during times when are not doing on-air weathercasts. It and KXAN.com include hourly and 7-day forecasts, plus radar and links to other weather resources on our site.
The Austin/San Antonio weather service office itself will remain open and staffed so they will continue taking partner and public phone calls and perform any additional functions that can be completed without AWIPS.
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