I have been unable to get data from ftpprd.ncep.noaa.gov since
Wednesday (GFS/MRF grids), but did find the grids I needed on
tgftp.nws.noaa.gov. Had some trouble with this site yesterday, too, but
this morning's run downloaded OK. I wrote to NCEP email help Thursday and
got this response:
Hello,
The NOAA NOC is saturated with users accessing the web services
for updates on hurricane Isabel, so many people are having
problems. Our ftp server is available, but the traffic high
getting through the NOAA NOC to get to us.
Yes, the MRF files are on the tgftp server, here:
The offical ftp server for NCEP data is the NWS file server,
SL.us008001/ST.opnl/MT.mrf_CY.00/RD.20030918/PT.grid_DF.gr1/*.mxdgrd
But you may not have much better luck getting to the tgftp server
until Isabel has dissipated.
-Paula
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Paula Freeman
National Centers for Environmental Prediction
Production Management Branch
paula.freeman@xxxxxxxx
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Robert Mullenax wrote:
>
> We still can't get any data from the NCEP ftp servers (since Thursday). Is
> anyone
> else successfully connecting? I can connect but I can never complete a
> file
> transfer (the 1 deg GFS). I know they were saturated at one point, is this
> still the case?
> A traceroute shows:
>
> /WX/users/rrm% /usr/sbin/traceroute ftpt.ncep.noaa.gov
> traceroute to ftpt.ncep.noaa.gov (140.90.198.134), 30 hops max, 40 byte
> packets
> 1 10.100.25.2 (10.100.25.2) 1.464 ms 0.308 ms 0.295 ms
> 2 phobos.univ-wea.com (12.31.213.254) 1.586 ms 1.574 ms 1.449 ms
> 3 cisco.univ-wea.com (12.31.212.254) 2.624 ms 2.651 ms 2.640 ms
> 4 206.121.216.161 (206.121.216.161) 42.429 ms 42.434 ms 206.121.216.157
> (206.121.216.157) 42.250 ms
> 5 tbr1-p011601.la2ca.ip.att.net (12.127.3.174) 43.052 ms 44.916 ms
> 42.945 ms
> 6 ggr1-p340.la2ca.ip.att.net (12.122.11.226) 42.598 ms 42.618 ms 42.411
> ms
> 7 205.171.1.129 (205.171.1.129) 42.808 ms 42.783 ms 42.942 ms
> 8 205.171.19.37 (205.171.19.37) 42.553 ms 43.029 ms 42.349 ms
> 9 205.171.5.162 (205.171.5.162) 43.859 ms 63.593 ms 43.880 ms
> 10 205.171.8.146 (205.171.8.146) 58.618 ms 58.791 ms 59.129 ms
> 11 205.171.21.150 (205.171.21.150) 60.866 ms 59.898 ms 59.858 ms
> 12 205.171.8.154 (205.171.8.154) 73.394 ms 73.626 ms 73.239 ms
> 13 205.171.9.62 (205.171.9.62) 73.307 ms 73.288 ms 73.238 ms
> 14 65.125.14.202 (65.125.14.202) 73.921 ms 73.856 ms 73.864 ms
> 15 140.90.76.106 (140.90.76.106) 72.678 ms 85.108 ms 102.709 ms
> 16 140.90.111.33 (140.90.111.33) 77.029 ms 81.415 ms 74.536 ms
> 17 140.90.59.5 (140.90.59.5) 74.246 ms 92.526 ms 110.877 ms
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> Robert Mullenax
> Weather Systems Administrator
> Universal Weather and Aviation
>