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IDD data users, Some sites experienced greater latencies recently (see Gilbert's previous "What's Wrong" question). Rest assured, NOAAport data is still flowing to Thelma. You can also refer back to the nws-changes message this morning regarding expected data outages for NWSTG October 5-7; however, the cause for some sites falling behind in the IDD data flow today was a surge in the amount of data being sent across NWSTG. Products Bytes Products Bytes 1999100416.stats 15248 51474515 1999100516.stats 12622 28636193 1999100417.stats 12880 36420311 1999100517.stats 35044 109592845 1999100418.stats 20663 79586168 1999100518.stats 23283 76889718 1999100419.stats 16920 59775736 1999100519.stats 14765 38963185 1999100420.stats 12893 36322145 1999100520.stats 12037 24207204 You may have noticed that for the past day, the HDS data stream has carried hourly RUC model data, where previously it had been provided 3 hourly. Also today, between 17Z and 18Z, a backlog in model runs was transmitted as follows: 17:06Z 16Z RUC transmitted 17:34Z 15Z RUC transmitted 17:40Z 16Z RUC transmitted <<-- duplicate data in queue 17:45Z 13Z RUC transmitted 17:52Z 14Z RUC transmitted 18:06Z 17Z RUC transmitted In other words, aside from the 16Z and 17Z RUC runs, 13Z, 14Z, and 15Z were also transmitted within the same hour. While the MD5 checksum that the LDM uses can identify duplication of data within the product queue, retransmission of data on the NWSTG after it has been expired from the product queue will lead to an increase of bandwidth usage. It also appears that many of the hydrologic and other bulletins transmitted on the DDPLUS|IDS data stream were retransmitted. The retransmission may be related to the NCF work refered to this morning in the NOUS42 KWBC message that was also sent out to the nws-changes mail list. Leafnode sites that do not wish to receive hourly RUC model runs may wish to employ filtering to their request ldmd.conf lines to ask for only the 3 hourly or other desired frequency of forecast run. As always, if you suspect that you are having trouble with data reception, please provide us with as much detail you can, including using the LDM troubleshooting tools and checking data reception to your upstream site with notifyme. Steve Chiswell Unidata User Support address@hidden