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Service Change Notice 25-05
National Weather Service Headquarters Silver Spring MD
100 PM EST Thu Jan 16 2025

To: Subscribers:
 -NOAA Weather Wire Service
 -Emergency Managers Weather Information Network
 -NOAAPort
 -NOAA Weather Radio All Hazards Listeners
 -EAS Participants
 Other NWS Partners, Users and Employees

From: Douglas C. Young, Chief
 NWS Digital and Graphical Information Support Branch

Subject: NOAA Weather Radio All Hazards (NWR) Service
Termination from Station WXM82, Egremont, Massachusetts:
Effective on or before February 28, 2025

Effective on or before February 28, 2025, NWR service from
WXM82, with a transmitter located in Egremont, Massachusetts and
previously operating on a frequency of 162.450 Megahertz (MHz),
will be terminated as the site location will no longer be
available for use.

Listeners can still receive forecasts, alerts and warning
information by using one or more of the following alternate NWR
transmitters:

County    Station IDFrequency (MHz)
======    =========================
Litchfield, CT    WWH33162.500
    WXL37162.475

Berkshire, MA    WXL34162.550
    WWF48162.525
    WWH33162.500
    WXM68162.425

Columbia, NY    WXL34162.550
    WXL37162.475

Dutchess, NY    WWH33162.500
    WXL37162.475

Rensselaer, NY    WXL34162.550
    WWF48162.525

Specific Area Message Encoding (SAME) Location Codes for every
county are provided at:

https://www.weather.gov/nwr/counties

Please continue to have multiple ways of accessing your
warnings, such as the Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) function
on your cell phones.

For more information, please contact:

Steve DiRienzo
Warning Coordination Meteorologist
Weather Forecast Office (WFO) Albany, NY
Email: stephen.dirienzo@noaa.gov

National Service Change Notices are online at:

https://www.weather.gov/notification/