Re: mws vs metar data, nsw 1, metar 0
On Wednesday 19 October 2016 05:14:46 Darac Marjal wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 05:09:05AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >On Wednesday 19 October 2016 00:33:29 Peter Ludikovsky wrote:
> >> When you visit the URL it's fetching there's a notice that the
> >> service is no longer available:
> >> "In Accordance with NWS Service Change Notice 16-16 this service
> >> has been discontinued."
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> /peter
> >
> >And replaced by what?
> >
> >I did find that quoted phrase in my searching, but not that Change
> > Notice 16-16. itself.
>
> Really? I searched for "NWS Service Change Notice 16-16" (no quotes)
> and this www.nws.noaa.gov/om/notification/scn16-16wngccb.htm was the
> first result. It states that weather.gov now supplies all the
> appropriate information, so weather.noaa.gov is no longer needed.
I khexedited the deamon, found that address string and changed it to
http://www.weather.gov. but on a restart, that gives a 404 error about
once a minute. I'll go recheck that weather.gov site & see if I can get
any schmardter.
I found the data for the local, actually under the correct label, but its
going to be fun editing that path into that binary. I would assume the
KCKB.TXT isn't needed because thats a different, editable entry in the
config
http://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/data/observations/metar/stations/KCKB.TXT
Editing that into the .so apparently exceeds the string length even if I
was over-writing $00's to do it, I now get a segfault and it exits. The
deamon however does start ok. I'll reinstall, so at least the rest of
gkrellm works.
> >But using that phrase, I did find it, and the request for comments
> > that was published a few months before, along with some contact
> > names, one of which has now been sent a query about its replacement.
> >
> >Thanks Peter.
> >
> >> Am 19.10.2016 um 05:32 schrieb Gene Heskett:
> >> > METAR is a std data format that has been used for many years.
> >> > I've been using a gkrellm, with its plugin gk-weather for about a
> >> > decade, but I've just become aware that the last time I got valid
> >> > METAR data from the airport about 20 miles northeast of me was on
> >> > July 28th.
> >> >
> >> > So as a double-chk, I installed the metar program from the wheezy
> >> > repo. It reports:
> >> >
> >> > gene@sheldon:~$ metar -v KCKB
> >> > Retrieving URL
> >> > http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/stations/KCKB
> >> >.TX T METAR pattern not found in NOAA data.
> >> >
> >> > So I switched to a slightly closer airport in Buchannon wv, and
> >> > get the same response.
> >> >
> >> > gene@sheldon:~$ metar -v KW22
> >> > Retrieving URL
> >> > http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/stations/KW22
> >> >.TX T METAR pattern not found in NOAA data.
> >> >
> >> > Poking around on the NOAA.gov main site, there is no mention of
> >> > it being discontinued that is easily searched for.
> >> >
> >> > Anybody have a light to shine on this?
> >> >
> >> > Thanks everybody.
> >> >
> >> > Cheers, Gene Heskett
> >
> >Cheers, Gene Heskett
> >--
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> > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
> >-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
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Cheers, Gene Heskett
--
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
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