Many of you have noticed that NEWA tools have been unavailable at certain points in the past four to five weeks. In part, this is due to the dramatic growth in popularity of our platform, but it is also due in part to our web servers, which could no longer handle this traffic.

In the next 24 hours, NEWA will move to new cloud-based servers! 

NEWA personnel and Northeast Regional Climate Center (NRCC) programmers have exhaustively tested functionality, accuracy and precision of the models on our new servers in preparation for this move. We have invested many hours to insure a quality transition when NEWA models move to the cloud. It is our sincere hope that you will see a dramatic improvement in NEWA availability and performance—where model pages display results without further interruptions.

NEWA users do not need to take any action, other than to continue to use and benefit from NEWA. The changes you will notice are that NEWA tools will work dependably, display quickly, and deliver the decision support you have grown to rely on.

We are optimistic that once NEWA is migrated to the new cloud-based servers, the NEWA tools will function reliably and consistently. But, in the event there is an issue, send an email to newa@cornell.edu. Tell us which page you were trying to access along with the date and time. We will promptly fix any “bugs” that might have escaped our notice or that might have resulted from the server migration.

Send any and all NEWA questions, comments, concerns and success stories to newa@cornell.edu. Your emails always bring important topics to our attention and we reply as quickly as possible.

NEWA and the New York State IPM Program would like to acknowledge the dedication, hard work and long hours of NRCC leadership and programming staff. Thank you NRCC!