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Beta.weather.gov

by ronbenton on 5/18/25, 1:26 AM with 26 comments

  • by tptacek on 5/18/25, 2:25 AM

    What did this site do? I use forecast.weather.gov as my weather site; it still works.

  • by rubitxxx4 on 5/18/25, 10:50 AM

    There was a comment here that I no longer see from someone that may work at Meteoblue (or majority shareholder Windy) which was very informative about various weather models. I think it’d be great if that person would write a post and share it, because I’d like to find a service that can provide the most reliable forecast dumps for our use in behavioral predictions.

    The Meteoblue predictions seem sometimes much different from other predictions, and it was said that Meteoblue had a combined model that may be better than all other models, so I’d like to see some data.

  • by js2 on 5/18/25, 1:46 AM

    For posterity, here's the full text of the page:

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    beta.weather.gov Has Been Deactivated Until Further Notice

    This page has been deactivated until further notice due to the loss of critical federal staff, which leaves this project without the resources required to continue its development or for routine monitoring and maintenance.

    The National Weather Service remains committed to designing a more informative and user-friendly Weather.gov website, and we intend to reactivate this beta site as soon as resources are in place.

    In the meantime, please continue to utilize Weather.gov as a source for official National Weather Service forecasts and warnings.

    Thank you to everyone who has and continues to provide feedback to improve National Weather Service systems like beta.weather.gov!

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    It's been that way since at least March 20, 2025:

    https://archive.ph/beta.weather.gov