I wanted to add to this discussion. 4 weeks ago I made a meso map which obviously is updated with the mesonet info from wunderground through VWS. I didn't notice right away but after some time I saw that my rapid fire at wunderground was not working, and was only updating every 30 minutes. If I did a VWS shut down and re-start, the rapid fire would work again for 12 hours or so. I did not see a connection between the 2 untill one day on the meso map I saw some of the data missing. I shut the meonet data retrieval off in VWS and my rapid fire worked correctly again. After a couple days I started the mesonet data retrieval again and the rapid fire started failing again. So I have removed the meso map and stopped the mesonet retrieval. I wonder if this is tied in to all of the issues you guys are having with the mesonet data retrieval. If it is I hope its fixed soon so I can put the meso map back on my page, it was liked by the people who visit my site.