Verifying NWS station IDs

Independent of Niagara, you can make a quick verification of the “current weather” status for any NWS station, providing you know its four-character station ID. Use a browser and this URL syntax.

http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/current/stationID.html

For example, to verify the Anchorage, Alaska station PANC, point a browser to

http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/current/PANC.html

This may be useful if trying to isolate a problem—say to verify that a station listed in the weather module’s nwsStationList.dita is still currently available.

Verifying NWS station IDs

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