Weather Service Alerts Paused

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National Weather Service pauses severe weather alerts in Spanish and other languages

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The National Weather Service has paused automated services that provide severe weather alerts in languages other than English after the government contract for those services expired this week .

The contract for artificial intelligence modeling used to send emergency alerts in different languages is among the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration contracts that lapsed.

Another contract with Amazon Web Services that was expected to end April 4 was extended at the last minute .

A banner at the top of a NWS page that shows weather updates in different languages says translation services “may be interrupted” after March 31 .

“Without this content being available we wouldn’t be reaching all the people we are meant to protect,” a source said.

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