Apparently your NWS guys don't realize that WSI products are available
to the public. I have more theories but they aren't appropriate
to dicsuss here.
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Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 1:39 PM
Cc: 'Frost, Mr. Michael'; 'ldm-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, Robert Mullenax wrote:
> Unfortunately this is not available, and it is also not available
> via FTP. It is on the Radar Product Service, which is a direct
> T1, but this incurs a cost.
>
> I have never been able to get an explanation as to why this data
> is not available on NOAAPORT or via FTP. It surely is small enough
> that it isn't a bandwidth limitation. As far as I can determine there
> are no plans to add it to NOAAPORT.
Robert,
Meteorologists at my local WFO and others have told me that it would lead
to false interpretation by the general public, so it's not on there. That,
and bandwidth considerations. The former excuse is funny, because the
major radar vendors slap it on their products. The latter is too,
because the NOAAPort feed is so fast now, they had to temporarily slow the
feed down. They have more than enough bandwidth to handle it. So...maybe
we can put in a request to add it?
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