Metar Changes

brian,

not knowing where to change this and not knowing if this will affect weather-dispay any, i am getting the following info from NWS Indiana:

Does this matter, or is it just a cosmetic thing that NWS is doing?

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EFFECTIVE FRIDAY…JUNE 13 2003 AT 500 PM EST…THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE WILL NO LONGER ISSUE THE INDIANA STATE FORECAST /SFPIN/
PRODUCT. IT WILL BE REPLACED BY A NEW TABULAR STATE FORECAST /SFTIN/
PRODUCT. THE SFTIN WILL PROVIDE WEATHER FORECAST INFORMATION OUT TO
SEVEN DAYS FOR VARIOUS CITIES AND TOWNS IN A TABULAR FORMAT. THE
SFTIN WILL BE ISSUED AT 500 AM AND 500 PM LIKE THE SFPIN.

FOR MORE INFORMATION SEE SERVICE CHANGE NOTICE 03-25…ISSUED ON
APRIL 18 2003. IT CAN BE FOUND ON THE INTERNET AT

WWW.NWS.NOAA.GOV/OM/NOTIFICATIONS/SCN03-25SFT.TXT (ALL LOWER CASE)

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hi
hopefully it wont be too much of an issue…
but email me the file if it falls over

This is the same message I’m also getting in my Illinois forecast. Looks like they’re making a across the board change this weekend.

we are getting this too. I guess it probably will be all of us. I am wondering that if this is only for what shows up on the consumer page. I have difficulty thinking that the actually ftp data and metar structure would change, but heck its the bush administration,

here is the iowa url on that …

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/dmx/data/med_adv/Med_adv03-10.pdf