Any concern that Living Atlas Federal USA data may go away or be taken down?

[CDFWGISAdmin]

Hi, is there any concern that USA Federal-related data currently hosted by Esri in value-added Living Atlas services and data downloads may be at risk of going offline with the new federal admin trends of reviewing and/or discontinuing data access?  If so, any mitigation steps we can take to help ensure continued access?  Thanks for any insight.

[BernSzukalski]

The team reports that there hasn't been any activity on the source side for a few days - National Hurricane Center and Joint Typhoon Warning Center

So there is nothing for the feed to update.

NHC Active Tropical Cyclones

Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC)

[BernSzukalski]

The team reports that there is only one event developing from JTWC, with no updates from NHC for several days.

https://www.metoc.navy.mil/jtwc/jtwc.html

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/cyclones/

[EllenNodwell_IntegraShare]

I was not using the active storms data, but the other one entitled Recent Hurricanes Cyclones and Typhoons https://services9.arcgis.com/RHVPKKiFTONKtxq3/arcgis/rest/services/Recent_Hurricanes_v1/FeatureServe... with the summary overview:

Summary

This layer features tropical storm (hurricanes, typhoons, cyclones) tracks, positions, and observed wind swaths from the past hurricane season for the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Basins.

2024 is the past hurricane season. I just wanted to clarify which data I was trying to use. That data that was present (from Beryl, 2024 Hurricane) but is no longer present, so whatever "decides" what data to show via some algorithm, is not showing the technically "past" hurricane season's data for the US (Atlantic) as of now.

Bottom line, whatever criteria is used, it appears that the data isn't coming through for the 2024 US hurricane "season" (the last season).

As I also mentioned, I am DIY now because the service feed from Living Atlas is not dependable as a source for the past hurricane season. A link that contains the data for these storms is here: NHC GIS Archive - Tropical Cyclone Best Track - year can be changed to find other than 2024 storms... This is mentioned as a source in the Esri Living Atlas Dataset "Recent Hurricanes Cyclones and Typhoons".

With the recent firings at NWS/NOAA, likely grabbing historical data while it's still there is something we all need to think about, as well as understanding what our sources for these feeds will be in the future if weather and other federal government feeds cease to exist.

I am in the NASA SPoRT Stakeholder group which has announced a stakeholder meeting coming up on April 2nd, and I receive notifications about  through the list server here: The Ncep.list.nos-nowcoast-status Archives - people can sign up for notifications on the list server here: Ncep.list.nos-nowcoast-status Info Page

I plan on asking questions at the stakeholder meeting if it does go on as scheduled.

One of the project managers suggested that people sign up to the Ncep list server to get these updates.

For what it's worth - hope it helps people who depend on weather feeds for their work here in Esri-Land.

Keep mapping!