Numbers are now strings in station data

[jfbauer432]

A bit earlier today, I discovered that the numeric data in the latest station data (e.g. https://api.weather.gov/stations/KBWI/observations/latest) are now strings.

i.e. prior
"windSpeed": { "value": 1.5, "unitCode": "unit:m_s-1", "qualityControl": "qc:V" },
now

"windSpeed": { "value": "9.359999999999999999999999999993", "unitCode": "unit:km_h-1", "qualityControl": "qc:V"

[sramsay]

As far as I can tell, this affects only the station data (but it's pretty catastrophic for anyone talking to the API through a strongly typed language).

[StephenClouse]

This is an unintentional change and we're looking into it.

[StephenClouse]

We have a hotfix for this issue scheduled for deployment on Monday 6/22.

[StephenClouse]

We have pushed this hotfix and it looks like things are back to how they should be.

[robertbcalhoun]

Thank you! I've stopped seeing JSON parse errors as the hotfix rolled out.

(Times in EDT, because Kibana likes to use my local TZ.)