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Any reason Metar airport stopped working?
« on: May 28, 2018, 07:13:03 AM »
This happened yesterday Metar started saying unable to load KVTN data RC= on ajax
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Re: Any reason Metar airport stopped working?
« Reply #1 on: May 28, 2018, 07:16:17 AM »
Settingsweather.php looks like this,

#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# For NOAA reports
$SITE['NOAAdir']        = './NOAA-reports/';   // relative location of the NOAA report files
# Weather Station sensors and options for dashboard
$SITE['conditionsMETAR'] = 'KVTN';  // set to nearby METAR for current conditions icon/text
#  comment out conditionsMETAR if no nearby METAR.. conditions icon/text will not be displayed
#
$SITE['overrideRain']   = true; // =true then rain rate will set rain words instead of METAR rain words
#                               // =false - no change to METAR rain words (station rain rate not used)
$SITE['feelslike']      = 0;     // =0 use HeatIndex, =1 use Humidex, =2 use Apparent Temperature
$SITE['DavisVP']   = false;  // set to false if not a Davis VP weather station
$SITE['UV']      = false;  // set to false if no UV sensor
$SITE['SOLAR']      = true;  // set to false if no Solar sensor
#
#########################################################################
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Re: Any reason Metar airport stopped working?
« Reply #2 on: May 28, 2018, 07:20:38 AM »
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Re: Any reason Metar airport stopped working?
« Reply #3 on: May 28, 2018, 07:47:57 AM »
As of this morning my nearby Metars aren't loading either!



I suspect a widespread NWS glitch.
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Re: Any reason Metar airport stopped working?
« Reply #4 on: May 28, 2018, 08:03:23 AM »
Thanks Jerry for quick reply, I was worried I screwed something up.
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Re: Any reason Metar airport stopped working?
« Reply #5 on: May 28, 2018, 08:32:23 AM »
According to "Is It Down Right Now" website the server at "tgftp(dot)nws(dot)noaa(dot)gov" is not responding. Just have to wait that to be resolved.
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Re: Any reason Metar airport stopped working?
« Reply #6 on: May 28, 2018, 10:20:13 AM »
NWS was having radar issues as well yesterday.

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Re: Any reason Metar airport stopped working?
« Reply #7 on: May 28, 2018, 11:47:07 AM »
Correct.. tgftp.nws.noaa.gov is not responding.  They'll need to bring it back online, then the METAR issues should be resolved.
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Re: Any reason Metar airport stopped working?
« Reply #8 on: May 28, 2018, 01:38:15 PM »
They are back up, finally.
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