On Thu, 15 Mar 2012, Pete Pokrandt wrote:
Starting around 15 UTC, we noticed a huge decrease in surface obs coming
through on DDPLUS. Any idea what is going on? I didn't see any admin messages
about data loss or problems.
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 1505251 Mar 15 09:54 12031512.METAR
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 1416254 Mar 15 09:58 12031513.METAR
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 1371268 Mar 15 10:54 12031514.METAR
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 465977 Mar 15 11:42 12031515.METAR
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 423100 Mar 15 13:41 12031516.METAR
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 287999 Mar 15 13:43 12031517.METAR
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 153010 Mar 15 13:46 12031518.METAR
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 228 Mar 15 13:36 12031519.METAR
Yep, NWS is having major issues with METARs. The FAA AIDAP feed (that
is how the NWS gets almost all of them) is fine, so it is definitely at
the NWS end.
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