This is unacceptable. Terminating almost 50% of Maryland metars and almost
60% of North Carolina metars with no notice? Unbelievable. Is this
permanent?
*Steve Adams | AWIS Weather Services*
888.798.9955 | sadams@xxxxxxxx | www.awis.com
On Fri, Oct 31, 2025 at 11:29 AM Sebenste, Gilbert <sebensteg@xxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Starting likely this evening, 58 METAR sites, mostly in the eastern and
> southeastern U.S., will go off-line.
>
> Gilbert Sebenste
> Meteorology Support Analyst
> College of DuPage
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> *From:* Holly Uhlenhake - NOAA Federal <holly.uhlenhake@xxxxxxxx>
> *Date:* October 31, 2025 at 6:25:16 AM CDT
> *To:* _NCEP NCO IDP Dataflow <nco.idp.dataflow@xxxxxxxx>
> *Subject:* *FAA/WMSCR outage for some sites, starting today*
>
>
> Morning SBN and METAR customers,
>
> FAA is not renewing contracts with their third party vendor. They sent me
> a list of sites that are not going to be reporting starting today. There
> are 58 sites in this list, which isn't a huge number, but I am curious how
> this impacts customers like yourselves. Please feel free to share those
> impacts with me.
>
> Thanks,
> Holly Uhlenhake
> IDP DF Team Lead
>
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