I fired off an email to my contact at the Radar Operations Center. I'll let you
all know what he says.
Gilbert
> On Mar 11, 2022, at 12:47 PM, Mike Zuranski <zuranski.wx@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> Has anybody heard an update on this?
>
> I'm still seeing this bad data coming over NEXRAD3, and rather confused why
> there hasn't been some kind of admin notice for this yet. I'd have thought
> this would be a priority for somebody by now.
>
> -Mike
>
> ======================
> Mike Zuranski
> Meteorology Support Analyst
> College of DuPage - Nexlab
> Weather.cod.edu
> ======================
>
>
>> On Mon, Mar 7, 2022 at 4:52 PM Gilbert Sebenste <gilbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>> I got a message from Mike Istok. He says this is the first they have heard
>> of this, and the NOAAport engineering team is looking at it now. He'll
>> report back when he finds out more.
>>
>> Gilbert
>>
>>>> On Mar 7, 2022, at 1:55 PM, Daniel Vietor - NOAA Affiliate
>>>> <dan.vietor@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>
>>> OK, I'll treat this as a bug for now. It does seem like it's getting
>>> better. I wrote a quick script to list those files with zlib compression.
>>> There are a lot of N0S and EET products but these aren't also bzip2
>>> compressed so my code handles it. There were 46 N0B products in the last
>>> hour that were zlib compressed:
>>>
>>> /mnt/data/noaaport/nids/BGM/20220307_1904_N0B.nid 368774 zlib
>>> /mnt/data/noaaport/nids/BGM/20220307_1910_N0B.nid 366048 zlib
>>> /mnt/data/noaaport/nids/BGM/20220307_1916_N0B.nid 365302 zlib
>>> /mnt/data/noaaport/nids/BGM/20220307_1922_N0B.nid 363941 zlib
>>> /mnt/data/noaaport/nids/BGM/20220307_1929_N0B.nid 359692 zlib
>>> /mnt/data/noaaport/nids/BGM/20220307_1935_N0B.nid 355491 zlib
>>> /mnt/data/noaaport/nids/BGM/20220307_1941_N0B.nid 352040 zlib
>>> /mnt/data/noaaport/nids/BGM/20220307_1947_N0B.nid 346301 zlib
>>> /mnt/data/noaaport/nids/BGM/20220307_1953_N0B.nid 338393 zlib
>>> /mnt/data/noaaport/nids/CBW/20220307_1916_N0B.nid 355862 zlib
>>> /mnt/data/noaaport/nids/CBW/20220307_1922_N0B.nid 361885 zlib
>>> /mnt/data/noaaport/nids/CBW/20220307_1928_N0B.nid 369223 zlib
>>> /mnt/data/noaaport/nids/CBW/20220307_1934_N0B.nid 372702 zlib
>>> /mnt/data/noaaport/nids/CBW/20220307_1940_N0B.nid 374620 zlib
>>> /mnt/data/noaaport/nids/CBW/20220307_1946_N0B.nid 375270 zlib
>>> /mnt/data/noaaport/nids/CBW/20220307_1952_N0B.nid 373890 zlib
>>> /mnt/data/noaaport/nids/CCX/20220307_1901_N0B.nid 361946 zlib
>>> /mnt/data/noaaport/nids/CCX/20220307_1907_N0B.nid 360498 zlib
>>> /mnt/data/noaaport/nids/CCX/20220307_1913_N0B.nid 361337 zlib
>>> /mnt/data/noaaport/nids/CCX/20220307_1918_N0B.nid 357527 zlib
>>> /mnt/data/noaaport/nids/CCX/20220307_1924_N0B.nid 352904 zlib
>>> /mnt/data/noaaport/nids/CCX/20220307_1930_N0B.nid 350048 zlib
>>> /mnt/data/noaaport/nids/CCX/20220307_1936_N0B.nid 340482 zlib
>>> /mnt/data/noaaport/nids/CCX/20220307_1942_N0B.nid 329713 zlib
>>> /mnt/data/noaaport/nids/CCX/20220307_1948_N0B.nid 319300 zlib
>>> /mnt/data/noaaport/nids/ENX/20220307_1912_N0B.nid 324750 zlib
>>> /mnt/data/noaaport/nids/ENX/20220307_1930_N0B.nid 329362 zlib
>>> /mnt/data/noaaport/nids/ENX/20220307_1941_N0B.nid 329805 zlib
>>> /mnt/data/noaaport/nids/ENX/20220307_1947_N0B.nid 333013 zlib
>>> /mnt/data/noaaport/nids/ENX/20220307_1953_N0B.nid 333542 zlib
>>> /mnt/data/noaaport/nids/GYX/20220307_1940_N0B.nid 321435 zlib
>>> /mnt/data/noaaport/nids/GYX/20220307_1946_N0B.nid 318901 zlib
>>> /mnt/data/noaaport/nids/HTX/20220307_1902_N0B.nid 286756 zlib
>>> /mnt/data/noaaport/nids/HTX/20220307_1905_N0B.nid 281872 zlib
>>> /mnt/data/noaaport/nids/HTX/20220307_1912_N0B.nid 282532 zlib
>>> /mnt/data/noaaport/nids/MRX/20220307_1902_N0B.nid 286064 zlib
>>> /mnt/data/noaaport/nids/MRX/20220307_1908_N0B.nid 286126 zlib
>>> /mnt/data/noaaport/nids/MRX/20220307_1914_N0B.nid 286212 zlib
>>> /mnt/data/noaaport/nids/MRX/20220307_1920_N0B.nid 286076 zlib
>>> /mnt/data/noaaport/nids/MRX/20220307_1926_N0B.nid 285670 zlib
>>> /mnt/data/noaaport/nids/MRX/20220307_1932_N0B.nid 288133 zlib
>>> /mnt/data/noaaport/nids/MRX/20220307_1938_N0B.nid 283514 zlib
>>> /mnt/data/noaaport/nids/MRX/20220307_1944_N0B.nid 285975 zlib
>>> /mnt/data/noaaport/nids/MRX/20220307_1950_N0B.nid 288229 zlib
>>> /mnt/data/noaaport/nids/RLX/20220307_1901_N0B.nid 312651 zlib
>>> /mnt/data/noaaport/nids/RLX/20220307_1903_N0B.nid 309328 zlib
>>> /mnt/data/noaaport/nids/RLX/20220307_1905_N0B.nid 307597 zlib
>>> /mnt/data/noaaport/nids/RLX/20220307_1911_N0B.nid 299850 zlib
>>> /mnt/data/noaaport/nids/RLX/20220307_1918_N0B.nid 296619 zlib
>>> /mnt/data/noaaport/nids/TYX/20220307_1936_N0B.nid 253444 zlib
>>>
>>> Dan.
>>>
>>>> On Mon, Mar 7, 2022 at 1:32 PM Herzmann, Daryl E [AGRON]
>>>> <akrherz@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> Thanks Dan. I agree, my theory has been debunked!
>>>>
>>>> daryl
>>>>
>>>> ________________________________________
>>>> From: Daniel Vietor - NOAA Affiliate <dan.vietor@xxxxxxxx>
>>>> Sent: Monday, March 7, 2022 1:31 PM
>>>> To: Mike Zuranski
>>>> Cc: LDM-Users; Herzmann, Daryl E [AGRON]; Gilbert Sebenste; Mike Voss
>>>> Subject: Re: [ldm-users] NEXRAD ID changes??
>>>>
>>>> Here is what I'm seeing:
>>>>
>>>> > pqlist -v -i 2 -p N0BHTX -O
>>>> 282532 20220307/191247.959 NEXRAD3 73337671 SDUS54 KHUN 071912 /pN0BHTX
>>>> desi.unidata.ucar.edu_v_noaaport2.wright-weather.com<http://desi.unidata.ucar.edu_v_noaaport2.wright-weather.com>
>>>> 286260 20220307/191605.178 NEXRAD3 73347001 SDUS54 KHUN 071915 /pN0BHTX
>>>> !nids/
>>>> desi.unidata.ucar.edu_v_noaaport2.wright-weather.com<http://desi.unidata.ucar.edu_v_noaaport2.wright-weather.com>
>>>> 283571 20220307/191903.226 NEXRAD3 73355592 SDUS54 KHUN 071918 /pN0BHTX
>>>> !nids/
>>>> desi.unidata.ucar.edu_v_noaaport2.wright-weather.com<http://desi.unidata.ucar.edu_v_noaaport2.wright-weather.com>
>>>> 288726 20220307/192204.649 NEXRAD3 73363877 SDUS54 KHUN 071921 /pN0BHTX
>>>> !nids/
>>>> desi.unidata.ucar.edu_v_noaaport2.wright-weather.com<http://desi.unidata.ucar.edu_v_noaaport2.wright-weather.com>
>>>> 285988 20220307/192603.930 NEXRAD3 73374809 SDUS54 KHUN 071925 /pN0BHTX
>>>> !nids/
>>>> desi.unidata.ucar.edu_v_noaaport2.wright-weather.com<http://desi.unidata.ucar.edu_v_noaaport2.wright-weather.com>
>>>>
>>>> desi.unidata seems to be the source for all the products. But those that
>>>> are zlib compressed don't have a "!nids" on the end of the header,
>>>>
>>>> I checked our feed at AWC which is coming straight from a dish in the back
>>>> 40.
>>>>
>>>> 00000000 01 0d 0d 0a 30 30 30 0d 0d 0a 53 44 55 53 35 34
>>>> |....000...SDUS54|
>>>> 00000010 20 4b 48 55 4e 20 30 37 31 39 31 32 0d 0d 0a 4e | KHUN
>>>> 071912...N|
>>>> 00000020 30 42 48 54 58 0d 0d 0a 78 da 85 57 7b 54 13 d7
>>>> |0BHTX...x..W{T..|
>>>> 00000030 ba 1f 1e 8a da 82 de ab d6 16 8a da f6 54 c4 9e
>>>> |.............T..|
>>>> 00000040 4a 55 1e 0a 26 82 68 7d b4 12 4f 11 53 c0 84 9e
>>>> |JU..&.h}..O.S...|
>>>> 00000050 52 e4 11 92 a8 90 cc 21 c3 58 d4 56 5b 2d a5 ad
>>>> |R......!.X.V[-..|
>>>> 00000060 0f 0a 31 80 72 25 2a 92 88 98 44 32 cc 5c 5b 7b
>>>> |..1.r%*...D2.\[{|
>>>> 00000070 44 94 80 8a 10 c2 30 33 ad 08 01 92 99 29 8f 64
>>>> |D.....03.....).d|
>>>>
>>>> It's coming off the dish that way.
>>>>
>>>> Dan.
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Mar 7, 2022 at 1:18 PM Mike Zuranski
>>>> <zuranski.wx@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:zuranski.wx@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>>> FWIW it's not just N.B products doing this...
>>>>
>>>> 20220307T191633.718220Z notifyme[70117]
>>>> notifyme.c:notifymeprog_5:212 INFO 18370 20220307191632.821513
>>>> NEXRAD3 73348475 SDUS26 KHNX 071911 /pNBBHNX !nids/
>>>> 20220307T191633.718326Z notifyme[70117]
>>>> notifyme.c:notifymeprog_5:212 INFO 6152 20220307191632.867833
>>>> NEXRAD3 73348476 SDUS58 PAFC 071914 /pN0SAIH
>>>> 20220307T191633.766274Z notifyme[70117]
>>>> notifyme.c:notifymeprog_5:212 INFO 19778 20220307191632.870118
>>>> NEXRAD3 73348477 SDUS28 PAFC 071910 /pN3BAKC !nids/
>>>> 20220307T191633.766402Z notifyme[70117]
>>>> notifyme.c:notifymeprog_5:212 INFO 2178 20220307191632.870344
>>>> NEXRAD3 73348478 SDUS52 KMLB 071913 /pDPAMLB
>>>> 20220307T191633.810195Z notifyme[70117]
>>>> notifyme.c:notifymeprog_5:212 INFO 98306 20220307191632.886132
>>>> NEXRAD3 73348479 SDUS21 KCTP 071913 /pN2BCCX !nids/
>>>> 20220307T191633.810287Z notifyme[70117]
>>>> notifyme.c:notifymeprog_5:212 INFO 1552 20220307191632.888075
>>>> NEXRAD3 73348480 SDUS55 KSLC 071910 /pNCRSLC
>>>> 20220307T191633.854166Z notifyme[70117]
>>>> notifyme.c:notifymeprog_5:212 INFO 67908 20220307191633.029729
>>>> NEXRAD3 73348481 SDUS52 KFFC 071915 /pTV0ATL !nids/
>>>> 20220307T191633.854309Z notifyme[70117]
>>>> notifyme.c:notifymeprog_5:212 INFO 4380 20220307191633.030216
>>>> NEXRAD3 73348482 SDUS52 KMLB 071913 /pNTPMLB
>>>> 20220307T191633.898156Z notifyme[70117]
>>>> notifyme.c:notifymeprog_5:212 INFO 233 20220307191633.030298
>>>> NEXRAD3 73348483 SDUS55 KSLC 071910 /pNVLSLC
>>>> 20220307T191633.898265Z notifyme[70117]
>>>> notifyme.c:notifymeprog_5:212 INFO 4050 20220307191633.032406
>>>> NEXRAD3 73348484 SDUS52 KMLB 071913 /pDSPMLB !nids/
>>>> 20220307T191633.946219Z notifyme[70117]
>>>> notifyme.c:notifymeprog_5:212 INFO 4484 20220307191633.035764
>>>> NEXRAD3 73348485 SDUS32 KMLB 071913 /pN1PMLB
>>>> 20220307T191633.946316Z notifyme[70117]
>>>> notifyme.c:notifymeprog_5:212 INFO 73239 20220307191633.047202
>>>> NEXRAD3 73348486 SDUS55 KSLC 071915 /pNYGICX !nids/
>>>> 20220307T191633.990205Z notifyme[70117]
>>>> notifyme.c:notifymeprog_5:212 INFO 15915 20220307191633.049020
>>>> NEXRAD3 73348487 SDUS26 KHNX 071911 /pNBUHNX !nids/
>>>>
>>>> I have not dug any deeper on those files however.
>>>>
>>>> -Mike
>>>>
>>>> ======================
>>>> Mike Zuranski
>>>> Meteorology Support Analyst
>>>> College of DuPage - Nexlab
>>>> Weather.cod.edu<http://weather.cod.edu/>
>>>> ======================
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Mar 7, 2022 at 1:11 PM Mike Zuranski
>>>> <zuranski.wx@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:zuranski.wx@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>>> I'm gonna go out on a limb and say it's a bug...
>>>>
>>>> An observation I made that correlates with yours: Shortly after RAX began
>>>> issuing N.B products there was a period where they were coming in... badly
>>>> somehow. The detail I noticed was the missing "!nids/" at the end of
>>>> nexrad products while watching the nexrad3 feed. And like you noticed
>>>> that was temporary.
>>>>
>>>> I see the same thing this morning from a number of sites (LOT grabbed my
>>>> attention first). I also see the number of sites doing this are
>>>> decreasing, so I'm wondering if this is being worked on somewhere. But
>>>> any nexrad products that I see in LDM that do not contain "!nids/" at the
>>>> end do not jive with McIDAS nor Gempak while all others do.
>>>>
>>>> Brief example:
>>>> 20220307T185809.320700Z notifyme[10618]
>>>> notifyme.c:notifymeprog_5:212 INFO 123297 20220307185809.170361
>>>> NEXRAD3 73287741 SDUS58 PAFC 071856 /pN0BAKC !nids/
>>>> 20220307T185811.881051Z notifyme[10618]
>>>> notifyme.c:notifymeprog_5:212 INFO 314053 20220307185811.690988
>>>> NEXRAD3 73287963 SDUS51 KRLX 071857 /pN0BRLX
>>>> 20220307T185813.488004Z notifyme[10618]
>>>> notifyme.c:notifymeprog_5:212 INFO 191116 20220307185813.222289
>>>> NEXRAD3 73287985 SDUS53 KGRR 071856 /pN0BGRR !nids/
>>>>
>>>> Daryl: I'm not sure there's a correlation to
>>>> exengine4.fox.com<http://exengine4.fox.com>, last time it was data
>>>> straight out of SBN doing this. My Noaaport's been down a while so I
>>>> can't confirm that right now though.
>>>>
>>>> -Mike
>>>>
>>>> ======================
>>>> Mike Zuranski
>>>> Meteorology Support Analyst
>>>> College of DuPage - Nexlab
>>>> Weather.cod.edu<http://weather.cod.edu/>
>>>> ======================
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Mar 7, 2022 at 1:04 PM Daniel Vietor - NOAA Affiliate via
>>>> ldm-users <ldm-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:ldm-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> Is it just me or are people seeing a strange zlib compression of the new
>>>> N0B products. When RAX first came out, it was OK and then for a couple of
>>>> days I saw the front end of the product was zlib compressed like the old
>>>> days of the nexrad products. It went away so I didn't think much about it.
>>>>
>>>> But then yesterday it came back. Several sites were intermittently zlib
>>>> compressing the N0B product. I noted Topeka, Kansas City, Springfield, St
>>>> Louis, Chicago, Evansville, Indianapolis and N Indiana were doing it. But
>>>> it was intermittent. One scan would be zlib compressed and the next
>>>> wouldn't be. It was like something in the product, like size, was
>>>> triggering the zlib compression.
>>>>
>>>> I took a look at some of the data. Only the first 4000 bytes are zlib
>>>> compressed. The radial payload is still bzip2 compressed. Since only the
>>>> header, which is about 100 bytes, is uncompressed, the zlib compression is
>>>> compressing over 3800 bytes of the radial payload. This seems strange.
>>>> Why compress data that are already compressed?
>>>>
>>>> After last night, it seems like this is a feature of the new N0B radar
>>>> data and not a bug. So I resurrected the old ucnid.c program I wrote 24
>>>> years ago to remove the zlib compression on the N0B products.
>>>>
>>>> So is this a bug or a feature?
>>>>
>>>> Dan.
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Mar 4, 2022 at 10:36 AM Gilbert Sebenste
>>>> <gilbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:gilbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>>> Nothing beats a good Daryl LDM-users rant in the morning. He never lets me
>>>> down!
>>>>
>>>> Imagine my utter surprise when I did what Daryl said and I found products
>>>> I didn't know were being sent over NOAAport. Then, I got curious and
>>>> instead of using the "NEXRAD" feedtype, I used "ANY". That's when I was
>>>> shocked to find several products being sent under the HRS feed that were
>>>> completely undocumented by the NWS, and were needed! I alerted Steve
>>>> Emmerson, who put out a fix for it. 6.13.16 has it all sorted out now.
>>>>
>>>> I'll point out that this thinking goes for any product. If there's a
>>>> product you think should be there that isn't coming in, and you know
>>>> you're getting the entire feed, use a request of "ANY" on that header.
>>>> Rarely, it's an LDM bug, but like the example above, it can happen where a
>>>> product shows up on an unexpected feedtype.
>>>>
>>>> Gilbert
>>>>
>>>> > On Mar 4, 2022, at 10:17 AM, Herzmann, Daryl E [AGRON]
>>>> > <akrherz@xxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:akrherz@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> > Good morning,
>>>> >
>>>> > I'd like to chime on the topic of "best practice for pqact entries".
>>>> > For the WMO header found in products, there's a general form for the
>>>> > entries found:
>>>> >
>>>> > TTAAII CCCC DDHHMI
>>>> >
>>>> > When there's a string found in the line below the WMO header that is six
>>>> > or so characters, this "PIL" is appended to LDM product name in the form
>>>> > like so:
>>>> >
>>>> > TTAAII CCCC DDHHMI /pPILXXX
>>>> >
>>>> > Summary: I *do not* trust the TTAAII value and only sparingly use it
>>>> > within a pqact entry, but instead fully trust the /pPILXXX section.
>>>> >
>>>> > In December 2015, I meet with the NWS Data Management folks expressing
>>>> > interest in quality controlling the CCCC portion of the WMO header. Can
>>>> > you imagine that it is sometimes wrong? Well, it has been 6+ years now,
>>>> > hundreds of emails, and I'm still not done getting them to correct
>>>> > issues with it. As an example of how painful the rabbit hole is, NWS
>>>> > Cheyenne KCYS was issuing TAFs for 3 sites using KOAX as the CCCC. This
>>>> > took 8 months to fix and I am still unsure if it is fully fixed.
>>>> >
>>>> > I have not even attempted automated quality control of the TTAAII, nor
>>>> > bugging NWS to fix it. Another story. I actually did attempt to get
>>>> > NWS to fix the TTAAII in the case of a product that wasn't using 6
>>>> > characters for the TTAAII, can you imagine that it is sometimes only 5?
>>>> > That request was rejected. Anyway, this value used to be more
>>>> > rigorously set, but is now more arbitrary than ever. So in the original
>>>> > example below.
>>>> >
>>>> > NEXRAD ^SDUS[2357]. ....
>>>> > ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9])([0-6][0-9]).*/p(...)(...)
>>>> >
>>>> > I would only trust the SDUS and drop any checks on the other TTAAII
>>>> > fields. Instead, put your limiters into the /p section.
>>>> >
>>>> > NEXRAD ^SDUS.. ....
>>>> > ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9])([0-6][0-9]).*/p(N0Q|N0B|N0G|Nwhatever)(...)
>>>> >
>>>> > Oh, there are examples in the TTAAII, where the AA is wrong, but I have
>>>> > ranted/whined enough already.
>>>> >
>>>> > daryl
>>>> >
>>>> > ________________________________________
>>>> > From: ldm-users
>>>> > <ldm-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:ldm-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
>>>> > on behalf of Gilbert Sebenste
>>>> > <gilbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:gilbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
>>>> > Sent: Friday, March 4, 2022 9:54 AM
>>>> > To: Daniel Vietor - NOAA Affiliate
>>>> > Cc: LDM-Users; Mike Voss
>>>> > Subject: Re: [ldm-users] NEXRAD ID changes??
>>>> >
>>>> > If you have LDM version 6.13.16, this shouldn't be happening. A bug fix
>>>> > was applied to ensure that everything NEXRAD3 is supposed to be there.
>>>> >
>>>> > Gilbert
>>>> >
>>>> > On Mar 4, 2022, at 9:15 AM, Daniel Vietor - NOAA Affiliate via ldm-users
>>>> > <ldm-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:ldm-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > I see a lot of them on the HDS feedtype. So I request both NEXRAD and
>>>> > HDS.
>>>> >
>>>> > Dan.
>>>> >
>>>> > On Fri, Mar 4, 2022 at 9:04 AM Mike Voss
>>>> > <mike.voss@xxxxxxxx<mailto:mike.voss@xxxxxxxx><mailto:mike.voss@xxxxxxxx<mailto:mike.voss@xxxxxxxx>>>
>>>> > wrote:
>>>> > Hi All,
>>>> > For me at least, some of my NEXRAD products stopped filing correctly
>>>> > yesterday at 18Z using this generic pattern match:
>>>> >
>>>> > NEXRAD ^SDUS[2357]. ....
>>>> > ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9])([0-6][0-9]).*/p(...)(...)
>>>> > FILE -overwrite -close
>>>> > nexrad/NIDS/\5/\4/\4_(\1:yyyy)(\1:mm)\1_\2\3
>>>> >
>>>> > as a test, when I changed to this:
>>>> > NEXRAD ^SDUS66 ....
>>>> >
>>>> > I started getting my "N0Q" products for MUX station.
>>>> >
>>>> > Also, I stopped receiving the FNEXRAD NEXRCOMP products. Is it possible
>>>> > these things are related such that the NEXRCOMP depends on the NIDS
>>>> > product ID's and somehow a recent change (yesterday) cause this to break?
>>>> >
>>>> > thanks for any insights,
>>>> > -MIke
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>>>
>>>
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>>> Dan Vietor
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>>> CIRA, Colorado State Univ
>>> Aviation Weather Center
>>> Kansas City, MO
>>> 816.584.7211
>>>