20020312: Surface obs missing

>From: Daryl Herzmann <address@hidden>
>Organization: Iowa State
>Keywords: 200203121526.g2CFQfa02624 motherlode ldmd.conf

Daryl,

>       Did someone change the ldmd.conf on motherlode again?

No.  The LDM configuration files have not changed on motherlode for
several days:

/local/ldm/etc% ls -alt *.conf
-rw-r--r--   1 ldm      ustaff      6745 Mar  4 18:34 ldmd.conf
-rw-r--r--   1 ldm      ustaff     70783 Feb 26 17:11 pqact.conf
-rw-r--r--   1 ldm      ustaff      1698 Oct 25 11:11 scour.conf
-rw-r--r--   1 ldm      ustaff      1622 Jun 14  2000 netcheck.conf

>I am 
>missing lots of surface obs, but the data seems to be timely?  This 
>problem seemed to have started little after 14Z or so.

Perhaps the problem is in the NOAAPORT stream itself.  We will attempt
to investigate further.

>       I am missing all AWOS obs and just got a 3 ASOS for 15Z.
>
>my current 15Z sao raw file is 56K , while
>http://www.atmos.albany.edu/weather/data1/surface/sao/
>
>is 319K

By looking at surface data decoded with McIDAS, I have verified your
observation that 15Z data is among the missing.

>Data appears to be arriving with a ~12 minute delay.

OK.

>Thanks,
>       Daryl
>
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Tom Yoksas