I’m using the Saratoga Ver3 templates and my advisories/alerts have stopped working…for about a week now I’ve looked trying to see what may be wrong…
unfortunately I can’t find the problem.
Would appreciate if someone could point me in a direction toward a solution.
Thanks Dan…it was the first thing I checked, everything is up to date…
http://www.bwsrh.com/wxadvisory.php this page seems to load properly but it doesn’t seem to be getting the alerts or info that needs to be posted
as I mentioned, it seems to have all of a sudden stopped working?
I’m not sure what it all means but on http://www.bwsrh.com/check-fetch-times.php the first test shows a HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden error from the NWS, and in the next section:
I wonder if the scripts and url’s are really up to date, there were some similar issues reported/fixed recently but I think the posts were lost in the forum server crash
Yes, Ken put out an update a couple weeks ago to fix the NWS issue. Waiting to hear if the cache files are intact…the cache files have names like “atom-advisory-WAZ021.txt” and I know in the past if there were problems fetching the file there was error code in the cache file that offered some clues…
FWIW, the advisory map is not showing any current alerts for MD or DE right now…
Watches, Warnings or Advisories for
Kent (MDZ012) Maryland
This page shows alerts currently in effect for Kent (MDZ012) Maryland and is normally updated every two-three minutes. Please see here for other state and listing by county.
Last updated: 16:44 GMT on 07-04-2015
There are no active watches, warnings or advisories
For a while after NWS changed to the Atom feeds, the zone= parm used to work then, they changed the parms so that x= parm is for the zone/county and added the y=0 parm for the unformatted page and y=1 for the formatted page. You can see the difference here:
I also found that if you try to use the url with y-1 in a script, it defaults to y=0. You can see an example of that in my display where I am using y=0 in the first display and y=1 in the second. They are both the same.
Add: Here’s a script you can use for testing. Put in on your webserver and then load into your browser. It should show the status of your forecast and advisory fetch’s. (Remove the .txt as it’s a .php file)