Pwsweather is down

[Gene]

As of about an hour ago, no new updates are getting to pwsweather. Their backend API seems to be completely down. Your updates should resume automatically when the site comes back up.

[ebgriff]

Has this been fixed? My system schedule started in the middle of a two day rain event. Weather skips were routine and sometimes mentally questioned, but accurate.

[Gene]

Yes, but you may be effected by another pwsweather issue described here:

PWS Showing as Inactive

pwsweather has started transitioning from password authentication to API keys, and while password authentication is still supported, it is now obvious that pwsweather is increasingly reporting (falsly) that password used for the update is incorrect (does not seem to effect stations updated with API keys). In case you’ve been using my wxfyi service to keep your pwsweather station updated, your station was likely effected by this issue. Lately the issue has been effecting an increased number of p…

Long story short, you may need to start using pwsweather API key for upload authentication in lieu of passwords which were used in the past.