Downloading files from the NOAA server in WD

Go to setup, control panel, ftp/internet/ etc

then the FTP download

click on the link in the ftp download setup
i.e
ftp://weather.noaa.gov/data/directory_contents.txt

and then say go to
ftp://weather.noaa.gov/data/forecasts/zone/
or

ftp://weather.noaa.gov/data/forecasts/state/

in your Browser

and then select the state or zone etc

then find the file you need

and set the server as
weather.noaa.gov

and the remote directory as
/data/forecasts/zone/ and add your sate on the end, e.g ca/

in WD

and then set the file to download
e.g
cac021.txt
and add that to the list
Then set the download times and turn on the download switch and try a test
you can also set the download directory too

if you want to use a downloaded forecast file to create a 5 day forecast in WD, then select that file you have downloaded with the button provided, then click on the main screen icon to see if it works (do not use the non noaa settings if it is a noaa forecast file being downloaded)

remember its case sensitive all this and it has to be exact