usaextremes.php script broke

It seems sometime yesterday (08-22-18) the usaextremes.php script and the stateextremes.php script has broken preventing sites that use this script to not load or receive a 504 error.
I attempted to do a hotfix by placing https: where http: is found but this makes no difference.

I went direct to the URL in the script and it does not load, so this is a serving issue.

Since I am no php guru is there someone who can resolve this issue if it an be? Is the script now useless as is?

Until the issue with the script is resolved, the only way I found to get websites back online is by doing the following:

Open the MENUBAR.PHP script and find:

include_once('StateExtremes.php');
include_once('usaextremes.php');  // High / Low - Precipitation Extremes in USA

replace with:

//include_once('StateExtremes.php');
//include_once('usaextremes.php');  // High / Low - Precipitation Extremes in USA 

The Climate Prediction Center was offline until just a few minutes ago. This is what broke the usaextremes.php and stateextremes.php scripts. They are now working again.