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>From: Harry Edmon <address@hidden> >Organization: . >Keywords: 200003312159.OAA02757 >The data I am receiving on grayskies from thelma is an hour old. Is this a >problem at thelma? The network seems to be okay. > > >-- >Dr. Harry Edmon E-MAIL: address@hidden >(206) 543-0547 FAX: (206) 543-0308 >Dept of Atmospheric Sciences >University of Washington, Box 351640, Seattle, WA 98195-1640 > Harry, Do you mean that the products are arriving with 1 hour latency, or the products that NWS is sending are old? I checked thelma, and using "ldmadmin watch", see that the data is arriving at thelma with no latency, and I did a "notifyme" to grayskies and see that data is arriving there OK too - but I do see SAUS80 bulletins with DDHHMM fields from the previous hour. Mar 31 22:49:18 pqutil: 160 20000331224917.840 IDS|DDPLUS 521 SAUS80 KWBC 312100 CCD /pMETAR There was a NOUS42 message today regardding COMMS work at NWS: NOUS42 KWNO 311336^M ADMNFD^M SPECIAL NCEP DISCUSSION^M CENTRAL OPERATIONS/NCEP/NWS/WASHINGTON DC^M 1320 UTC FRI MAR 31 2000^M ^M 311320Z...THE 12Z NCEP MODEL CYCLE IS OFF AND RUNNING..^M THE ETA STARTED ON TIME AT 1314Z..RAOB RECAP..GOOD COVERAGE^M OF 12Z UPA DATA OVER NORTH AMERICA..AFC AND CDB AND FFC WERE^M ALL NOT AVAILABLE..BMX DELETED BAD/WINDS DIR/STG BETWEEN 925-^M 340MB LEVELS AND BETWEEN 190-140MB LEVELS..CHS DELETED HIGH^M HGTS AND WARM/TEMPS 200MB AND UP..ALY DELETED HIGH/HGTS 100MB^M AND..WAL DELETED HIGH/HGTS 150MB AND UP..TFX DELETED BAD^M WINDS DIR/STG BETWEEN 740-530MB LEVELS..AND THERE WERE^M 8-MEXICAN UPA REPORTS IN FOR THE ETA/NGM..END..^M ^M FYI..THE OSO/GATEWAY COMMS TEST WILL BE TODAY BETWEEN^M 1400-1800Z..ITS POSSIBLE THAT DELIVERY OF NCEP PRODUCTS^M COULD BE DELAYED DURING THE TEST..WE WILL KEEP YOU^M INFORMED..^M ^M SMITH/SDM/NCO/NCEP I wanted to check on what you meant- since it appears that grayskies is getting the data as it comes off noaaport- but was wondering if the NWS was behind in their data uplink. Steve Chiswell.