Category: Site Updates

TalkWeather Forum Maintenance – March 7, 2020

Updated March 7, 2020 – Upgrade Complete Starting on March 7, 2020 at 10:00pm central time, the TalkWeather forums will be down for up to one hour for a database upgrade. This scheduled maintenance was originally scheduled for March 6th but had to be rescheduled. During this time the forums will be unavailable. Updates on the status of the upgrade will be added to this blog post as they happen. This upgrade will allow us to have better performance during severe weather events. Since the re-launch of TalkWeather, we have only had one major downtime event (more than 30 minutes

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Forum Upgrades – April 9, 2019

** Update – 12:30AM – All updates have been loaded and we are back to normal operations. ** Update – 12:08AM – One of our updates took a bit longer than expected to transfer.  Board is now officially off-line for updates.  Should be back online at 12:35AM.  ~Wes Greetings TalkWeather nation, As we are preparing for several rounds of severe weather across the country, especially the southeast, we will be performing a few upgrades on the forum software and servers.  This upgrade will ensure our forum software is at the most current version and also will provide a faster load

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Completed TalkWeather Forum Upgrade (31AUG2018)

Update 12:07am – TalkWeather is back online.  Thanks for your patience. UPGRADE SUMMARY TalkWeather Forums will be offline from 31AUG3018 11:00pm (central) until 01SEP2018 12:00am (1 hour) Updates during and after the upgrade will be posted at https://blog.talkweather.com Good afternoon everyone,Tomorrow evening (31AUG2018) at 11:00pm central, we will begin a series of upgrades for the forum software as well as the underlying hosting environment. During this time the forum will be inaccessible and should be back online around midnight. These upgrades will allow us to add several new features to the site down the road, along with increased speed and security. Over

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Forum Upgrade Set For 21APR2018

Tonight we will be updating the forum software to the latest version and also updating several plugins.  The forum will be down from 11:45pm on April 21, 2018 until around 12:05am on April 22, 2018.  Updates will be posted on this page as the upgrades take place.  In testing, we experienced no issues with this set up of upgrades but we do have full backups of the site and related databases just in case. —- 21APR2018 —- 11:46 pm:  Server software updated without issue. 11:58 pm:  Main forum upgrade started a few minutes late but no issues so far. —- 22APR2018 —-

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TW Member has Article Featured in Alabama Living

We are proud to announce that TalkWeather Member akt1985, also known as Arron Turner, has recently had a great article about how storm spotters help keep Alabama communities safe featured in Alabama Living magazine.  Alabama Living is the official statewide publication of the electric cooperatives in Alabama and the largest magazine of its type in the state, reaching some 400,000 electric cooperative consumers. Aaron does a great job detailing the process of how storm spotters are a vital part of helping the National Weather Service and emergency management officials informed with ground observations during and after severe weather.  If you are

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