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Re: mws vs metar data, nsw 1, metar 0

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On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 05:09:05AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>On Wednesday 19 October 2016 00:33:29 Peter Ludikovsky wrote:
>
>> When you visit the URL it's fetching there's a notice that the service
>> is no longer available:
>> "In Accordance with NWS Service Change Notice 16-16 this service has
>> been discontinued."
>>
>> Regards,
>> /peter
>>
>And replaced by what?
>
>I did find that quoted phrase in my searching, but not that Change Notice
>16-16. itself.

Really? I searched for "NWS Service Change Notice 16-16" (no quotes) and 
this www.nws.noaa.gov/om/notification/scn16-16wngccb.htm was the first 
result. It states that weather.gov now supplies all the appropriate 
information, so weather.noaa.gov is no longer needed.

>
>But using that phrase, I did find it, and the request for comments that
>was published a few months before, along with some contact names, one of
>which has now been sent a query about its replacement.
>
>Thanks Peter.
>
>> Am 19.10.2016 um 05:32 schrieb Gene Heskett:
>> > METAR is a std data format that has been used for many years. I've
>> > been using a gkrellm, with its plugin gk-weather for about a decade,
>> > but I've just become aware that the last time I got valid METAR data
>> > from the airport about 20 miles northeast of me was on July 28th.
>> >
>> > So as a double-chk, I installed the metar program from the wheezy
>> > repo. It reports:
>> >
>> > gene@sheldon:~$ metar -v KCKB
>> > Retrieving URL
>> > http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/stations/KCKB.TX
>> >T METAR pattern not found in NOAA data.
>> >
>> > So I switched to a slightly closer airport in Buchannon wv, and get
>> > the same response.
>> >
>> > gene@sheldon:~$ metar -v KW22
>> > Retrieving URL
>> > http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/stations/KW22.TX
>> >T METAR pattern not found in NOAA data.
>> >
>> > Poking around on the NOAA.gov main site, there is no mention of it
>> > being discontinued that is easily searched for.
>> >
>> > Anybody have a light to shine on this?
>> >
>> > Thanks everybody.
>> >
>> > Cheers, Gene Heskett
>
>
>Cheers, Gene Heskett
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mws vs metar data, nsw 1, metar 0 Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-10-19 05:40 +0200
  Re: mws vs metar data, nsw 1, metar 0 Peter Ludikovsky <peter@ludikovsky.name> - 2016-10-19 06:40 +0200
    Re: mws vs metar data, nsw 1, metar 0 Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-10-19 11:10 +0200
      Re: mws vs metar data, nsw 1, metar 0 Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2016-10-19 11:20 +0200
        Re: mws vs metar data, nsw 1, metar 0 Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-10-19 14:10 +0200
          Re: mws vs metar data, nsw 1, metar 0 Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2016-10-19 14:40 +0200
            Re: mws vs metar data, nsw 1, metar 0 Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-10-19 16:10 +0200
              Re: mws vs metar data, nsw 1, metar 0 Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2016-10-19 16:20 +0200
                Re: mws vs metar data, nsw 1, metar 0 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> - 2016-10-19 17:20 +0200
                Re: mws vs metar data, nsw 1, metar 0 Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2016-10-19 17:30 +0200

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