[python #MGE-654298]: Siphon RadarServer connectivity issues

Greetings!

Apologies for the delayed response, as I've been out of the office.

Thanks for reaching out! Our team will take a look at reboot the server as 
necessary.

In the meanwhile, you might consider using the Python boto3 library to download 
the data directly from S3:

    from datetime import datetime

    import boto3
    import botocore
    from botocore.client import Config
    from metpy.io import Level2File

    s3 = boto3.resource('s3', config=Config(signature_version=botocore.UNSIGNED,
                                            user_agent_extra='Resource'))
    bucket = s3.Bucket('noaa-nexrad-level2')
    d = datetime(2020, 5, 3, 23)
    station = 'KTLX'

    prefix = f'{d:%Y}/{d:%m}/{d:%d}/{station}/{station}{d:%Y%m%d_%H}'
    for obj in bucket.objects.filter(Prefix=prefix):
        print(obj.key)
        break

    f = Level2File(obj.get()['Body'])

Cheers!

Ryan

> Dear Unidata,
> 
> My colleague and I are having some problems with using the Siphon
> RadarServer Python class using the url:
> http://tds-nexrad.scigw.unidata.ucar.edu/thredds/radarServer/nexrad/level2/S3/.
> We were able to successfully retrieve NEXRAD Level II radar data yesterday
> but we're now running into a connection issue with the server.  It seems
> like the server might be down and might need to be rebooted. Is this
> correct? We also have tried visiting the page and it is apparently down.
> 
> Sincerely,


Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: MGE-654298
Department: Support Python
Priority: Low
Status: Closed
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