This website is a testbed of weather dissemination technologies powered
by the Iowa Environmental Mesonet of Iowa State University. These products
and services are provided without warranty.
Live Client This is an upstream version of the
NWSChat Live client. This
client interfaces with the XMPP server hosted at weather.im and open to
public usage.
On 1 August 2023, the National Weather Service (NWS) migrated from NWSChat v1.0
to a version based on Slack. This change
does not impact the tools found here.
7 June 2023: As a part of the IEM Webfarm Move,
the public IP address of this service has changed. XMPP clients will need to understand
DNS SRV records to connect to the chat server. You can hard code the connect host
to 129.186.185.33, if necessary.
16 April 2021: The WFO-centric chatrooms on the
weather.im server are all read-only due to incessant spam and bad
behaviour.