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273 NOUS42 KWNO 130818 ADMNFD SPECIAL NCEP DISCUSSION CENTRAL OPERATIONS/NCEP/NWS/WASHINGTON DC 0810 UTC SUN OCT 13 2002 130810Z...PLEASE NOTE...GOOD NEWS... DIAL BACKUP COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN BRACKNELL AND NWS/TOC WERE ESTABLISHED AT 0745Z..SO DATA IS FLOWING BETWEEN EACH LOCATION..AND THERE IS ABOUT FOUR AND ONE/HALF HOURS OF DATA IN QUEUE ON BOTH ENDS..SO ANY MISSED PRODUCTS WILL BE MADE..BUT DELAYED ANYWHERE FROM 2-4 HOURS..WE ESTIMATE THE 13/00Z UKMET MODEL OUTPUT AVAILABLE BY 11Z OR SO.. THE PRIMARY BRACKNELL COMMS CIRCUIT FROM ENGLAND TO NWS/TOC IS STILL DOWN AND HAS BEEN DOWN SINCE 13/0323Z DUE TO A MAJOR CABLE CUT IN LONDON ENGLAND.. NO UPTIME IS KNOWN WHEN THE PRIMARY COMMS CIRCUIT WILL BE RESTORED.. OTHERWISE..THE 06Z ETA IS ALMOST DONE AND THE 06Z GFS SHOULD START ON TIME AT 0847Z.. FYI... REMINDER...ON 17 OCTOBER 2002 NCEP WILL EXERCISE ITS BACKUP MODEL DISSEMINATION SYSTEM. THIS EXERCISE WILL BE CONDUCTED DURING THE 12Z MODEL CYCLE. INFO ON THE TYPE OF PRODUCTS AVBL FROM THE BACKUP PROCESSING AND THEIR APPROX DELIVERY TIMES CAN BE FOUND AT THE FOLLOWING WEB SITE... http://www.ncep.noaa.gov/NCO/PMB/nwprod/osobackup/ncep_backup.html ALL LOWER CASE EXCEPT NCO AND PMB MUST BE CAPITALIZED. SMITH/SDM/NCO/NCEP
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