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> Is it possible to load in archived radar data? If you have your own EDEX running, then you can download the level3 radar data and drop it into the manual endpoint or run a script to ingest it, but otherwise not super easily. > I’ve also been having an issue with delayed radar scans. Sometimes the scans > wont even load in until I clear AWIPS and reload the radar data. Is there a > fix to this? > Which radars sites are you loading and which products are you trying to load? There shouldn't be an issues, but best action would be to clear your cache by closing CAVE, removing caveData, and restart CAVE. Further steps on this can be found here: http://unidata.github.io/awips2/appendix/common-problems/#removing-cavedata Thanks, Tiffany Meyer AWIPS Lead Software Engineer UCAR-Unidata If you're interested, please feel free to fill out a survey about the support you receive: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeDIkdk8qUMgq8ZdM4jhP-ubJPUOr-mJMQgxInwoAWoV5QcOw/viewform Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: FSS-777235 Department: Support AWIPS Priority: Normal Status: Open =================== NOTE: All email exchanges with Unidata User Support are recorded in the Unidata inquiry tracking system and then made publicly available through the web. If you do not want to have your interactions made available in this way, you must let us know in each email you send to us.