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Re: [OM] OT: Weather Forecasting

Subject: Re: [OM] OT: Weather Forecasting
From: Philippe <photo.philippe.amard@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 28 May 2018 18:28:33 +0200
Not raining here, but I can hear thundering in the distance. 

Amities
Philippe


> Le 28 mai 2018 à 16:47, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
> 
>     It appears that NCEP/NOAA (National Centers for Environmental Prediction) 
> has gone offline.  Nothing is available, not even the top page.  Most of 
> their facilities are located in Maryland, and with that massive flooding in 
> Ellicott City I can't help but wonder if there has been some significant 
> damage to the local telecomm infrastructure.
> 
>     It was some 2 1/2 years ago (??) that they had a fatal server failure, 
> which took out the interactive internet interface for almost six months as 
> they had to replace the entire server.  That didn't bother me at all as I 
> only use the FTP server, which is much faster.  But now, even that bottom 
> tier is gone.
> 
>     For now, I'll have to rely on the UNISYS access to GFS, which is a poor 
> but usable substitute.  It's nowhere near as robust as NCEP/NOAA.
> 
> Chris
> 
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>     - Hunter S. Thompson
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