What happened to National Weather Service (NWS) "detailed_description"?

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I had an automation that would read off the detailed description attribute in the NWS integration, since it was detailed and formatted for human readability. But a little over a month ago it disappeared from the sensor attributes. I assumed at first that their API removed it, but after some digging it still appears to be provided by their API, it’s just the HA integration that no longer retrieves it. Anyone have an idea why?

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I don’t use that integration so I don’t know why it would have been removed…

but…

I have an NWS Alerts integration that still provides that info if you’d like to use it.

it’s available in HACS.

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Now that NWS is finally back up, I was able to look at this.

I see the “detailed description” is there as a NWS “weather” entity “forecast” list attribute.

I’m not sure what you mean when you refer to it as a “sensor” attribute?

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I might be using the wrong term, but I still don’t see it. There is no “weather” entity in the NWS integration for me, just a “Daynight” entity, which provides the hourly forecast and twice daily forecast as attributes. As well as all the current conditions. I’m not seeing the detailed description anywhere though?

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Goto UI->DeveloperTools->States and scroll down to your weather.NWSCODE_daynight, and you should see an attribute: forecast with a list and each item in the list that contains detailed_description.

I think what you are saying is that there use to be a sensor that also contained the detailed description. That could be, I’m not sure. But back around release [2023.9], the NWS forecast integration was “modernized”. The HA Architecture team decided that forecast attribute (which contained the detailed description) did not belong with weather entities so they deprecated it and so I think around April 2024, the forecast attribute will disappear altogether. The NWS modernization change is also planning to remove the forecast as a weather entity attribute. This nodernization may have been where you lost that sensor attribute.

There is possibly a work around, and here is one of many threads (I would start at the end of this thread and work backwards) on this subject