Sorry for the delay in response due to the holiday weekend. It looks
things have settled down a bit from the higher volume that you sent us
the screenshot of on Sunday. I'm fairly new to these NOAAPort volumes
so what is typical of a baseline that you've seen? My best guess is
that due to the active weather over the weekend, there was a higher
volume than normal with the volume dropping back to a more normal range
now.
Dustin,
Welcome to the Dataflow team! The normal ebbs and flows of NOAAPort
volume are not greatly influenced by "active weather," but can of course
show an increase during extreme events. The changes introduced by
re-transmits however can cause NOAAPort to "flatline." Here is a
highlight of such an event from last Sunday that you mentioned:
http://modelweather.com/files/cases/2017/01/noaaprot.rexmits.redux.png
Notice that the numbers are negative, and I have drawn a red box around
the area of retransmits that occurred from Saturday evening through
Sunday, then the normal ebbs and flows of volume resumed. The problem
with the "flatlining" is that it can cause delays in product receipt
that most would not notice unless they are overly familiar or acutely
monitor product receipt times; but of course, it is something that
should not occur. The first link on my personal site displays live
statistics on my NOAAPort Array: http://modelweather.com/ Feel free to
look anytime you wish. In the title bar of the Volume Chart is a link to
"History" that will display volume archives by day, week, month, and
year. Feel free to peruse them to help heighten your understanding of
NOAAPort trends, and feel free to ping me whenever you like. We weather
peeps have to stick together!
cheers,
--patrick
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