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SUBJECT: Changes to the NWS Production Suite1. The new Central Computer System (Mist/Dew) is expected to become operational on Tuesday, 23 January. The current system (Blue/White) will remain in service until Thursday, 14 February. All data remaining on White/Blue after that date will be lost. A full parallel production suite continues to run on Mist and Dew and general user access began on 20 December. Fail over testing of Computer operations between Mist and Dew will be performed through 19 January. There may be periods of interruption in service as this testing takes place. 2. The announcement of the availability of the Replacement Telecommunications Gateway (RTG) http://www.weather.gov/dm-cgi-bin/chgshow.pl?fn=DM12-06.01.txt was intended for the Family of Service customers only. General anonymous FTP access is scheduled to become available on Thursday, 11 January. The six month period for parallel GRIB1 and GRIB2 access will begin shortly after this date. NCEP/NCO has public web resources available to aid users through this transition period. For information regarding product equivalents for GRIB1 and GRIB2 on the TOC servers, tgdata.nws.noaa.gov and tgftp.nws.noaa.gov please see the following link: http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/docs/GRIB1_to_GRIB2.shtml For information regarding a utility which converts GRIB2 to GRIB1 and vice-versa, please see the following link: http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/codes/GRIB2/ 3. Upcoming changes to NCEP's production suite and details on any product or timing changes that are associated with upcoming implementations can be viewed at the following website: http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/changes/
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