Spot v3.0.1 Deployment 

General

• The website for Spot has been moved from https://www.weather.gov/spot to its own subdomain at https://spot.weather.gov.

• The landing page for Spot will now be the monitor map and table of Spot requests.

• The Spot application has been redesigned to use a Javascript based framework for the front end and a PHP API back end. This new architecture will allow greater flexibility for future improvements and application development. 

• Introduction of the Spot Administrator Portal. The Spot Administrator Portal, available at https://spot.weather.gov/cms/admin., The Spot Administrator Portal allows authorized personnel to modify STQ details, generate generating a new STQ product, modify FWS forecast details, or the office configurations that were previously available through the legacy NIDS CMS. NOAA personnel, if authorized, can access the portal using their NOAA credentials through ICAM. Also, eExternal personnel may also be granted access to this portal through the NCO DMZ authentication system after receiving an approved account.

• STQ products now contain a new line indicating the type of Hysplit request being made.

• Dissemination of STQ requests and the ingest of FWS products is now handled by the NGITWS architecture and the high availability and reliability of that infrastructure. 

• Superuser access to Spot requests is no longer controlled by IP addresses. All privileged access has been moved behind the Spot Administrator Portal. 

• The application has been designed with high availability structures, allowing for it to operate at either Integrated Dissemination Program datacenter and fast failovers. 

Spot Administrator Portal

• Authorized users will be able to edit any of the information associated with a Spot request. 

• Authorized users will be able to change the status of a request from archived to active state. 

• Authorized users will be able to edit the remarks associated with a Forecast.

• Authorized users will be able to edit the forecast text content or add a new forecast to a request. 

• Authorized users will have access to the previous capabilities within the CMS to edit office configurations, element or incident details. 

Spot New Requests

• The Spot Request page has been moved from https://www.weather.gov/spot/request to https://spot.weather.gov/new-request

• Users can now select a date and time under Future Forecasts in which the system will automatically send an STQ update request through the system without the user having to take further action. The dissemination of the Future Forecast is done through the new Spot automation daemon.

• After submitting a Spot request, users will now receive an email with an edit link. AWith =the token will be available in the link, that the user can then edit the product from any system, no longer restricted by IP address.

• Hysplit requests now have the options of None, Yes - Plume Output, and Yes - Trajectory Output. When selecting Yes - Plume Output the user will be prompted to contact the office to provide additional information.

• Spot application uses NGITWS API zones to identify the responsible office for a Spot request, allowing for proper office identification based on the type of request submitted.

Spot Monitor

• The monitor page for Spot has been moved from https://www.weather.gov/spot/monitor to 

• The monitor page now shows Spot requests in a tabular format for an easier to read layout.

• The monitor and forecast maps now display Watches and Warnings from the NOAA Cloud GIS services.

• The Spot monitor table is sortable by ID, Name, Type, Submission Time, Delivery Time, or WFO. 

Spot Requests and Forecasts

• Spot requests and their associated forecast page have beenhavehas been moved from https://www.weather.gov/spot/forecast.php?snumunum=<spotid> to https://spot.weather.gov/forecasts/<spotid>

Spot GeoJson Page

• The Spot GeoJSON endpoint is now available at https://spot.weather.gov/cms/api/1.0/geojson. Media type must be set to ‘application/json’.  

Spot Calendar

• The Spot calendar now shows Active Requests and Archived Requests for the day on the same page.

• The listing of forecasts per day shows the active map. 

Spot Automation

• Introduction of a new Spot automation daemon sends out emails to offices and ARL. 

• When a user selects a forecast with a Hysplit, a Hysplit request email is sent out 1 hour prior to the request time to the ARL office or immediately if the request is immediate. 

• New Spot automation daemon will notify forecast offices with an email when a request has not been answered. 

• New Spot automation daemon will notify forecast offices prior to an upcoming Spot request.