I am in currently writing scripts to decode SYNOP reports
every 3 hours, day or night.

Output can be seen at
http://www.met.rdg.ac.uk/~brugge/00.html
(replace 00 with 03, 06, 09, 12, 15, 18 or 21 as required).

The scripts are a little temperamental, so if there are
problems please be patient. However, comments are welcome.

The files are valid for the last 24 hours, as the archive
is a rolling one.

Roger

Roger Brugge wrote:
I am in currently writing scripts to decode SYNOP reports
every 3 hours, day or night.

Output can be seen at
http://www.met.rdg.ac.uk/~brugge/00.html
(replace 00 with 03, 06, 09, 12, 15, 18 or 21 as required).

The scripts are a little temperamental, so if there are
problems please be patient. However, comments are welcome.

The files are valid for the last 24 hours, as the archive
is a rolling one.

Roger

Hi Roger,

The rainfall totals at the 06hr synop you could use the 24 hour totals
from the 7**** group as most of the UK use these now.

You also have some problem with the grass minimums, a lot of minus
numbers, as far as I can see only Shawbury was -2°c. Aviemore was +7°c
nor -0.1.

I guess you could also put in a humidity figure derived from the wet/dry
bulb temperatures.

Shame we don't get the whole list for all hours, I would love to see
Cairngorm and Aonach More etc on a daily basis :-(

Regards

--
Keith (Southend)
http://www.southendweather.net
e-mail: kreh at southendweather dot net

In message , Roger Brugge
writes
I am in currently writing scripts to decode SYNOP reports
every 3 hours, day or night.

Output can be seen at
http://www.met.rdg.ac.uk/~brugge/00.html
(replace 00 with 03, 06, 09, 12, 15, 18 or 21 as required).

The scripts are a little temperamental, so if there are
problems please be patient. However, comments are welcome.

The files are valid for the last 24 hours, as the archive
is a rolling one.

Roger
Roger-At Last!
Colin Tandy and I produced a SYNOP program in the 1990's. It is very
good, although data acquisition made it a bit cumbersome. Even so we
were proud of it. You can have the software (with Colin's permission)
if you want it.

The station plots are as good as we could get them. And I thought them
up to Office quality. Colin used a Mercator projection (as it was
global) but I preferred the polar stereo at 60N.

Good luck - have you got a good source of synops? Sure you have but
contact me if you need any URLs-I think I have still got them.

We also decoded upper information with good success.

Look forward to your results.

Cheers

Paul
--
'Wisest are they that know they do not know.' Socrates.
Paul Bartlett FRMetS
www.rutnet.co.uk Go to local weather.
400FT AMSL 25Miles southwest of the Wash

In article ,
Roger Brugge writes:
I am in currently writing scripts to decode SYNOP reports
every 3 hours, day or night.

Output can be seen at
http://www.met.rdg.ac.uk/~brugge/00.html
(replace 00 with 03, 06, 09, 12, 15, 18 or 21 as required).

The scripts are a little temperamental, so if there are
problems please be patient. However, comments are welcome.

The files are valid for the last 24 hours, as the archive
is a rolling one.

That's excellent. Is there any chance of an enhancement to add the site
name?
--
John Hall
"Honest criticism is hard to take,
particularly from a relative, a friend,
an acquaintance, or a stranger." Franklin P Jones

In message , Roger Brugge
writes
I am in currently writing scripts to decode SYNOP reports
every 3 hours, day or night.

Output can be seen at
http://www.met.rdg.ac.uk/~brugge/00.html
(replace 00 with 03, 06, 09, 12, 15, 18 or 21 as required).

The scripts are a little temperamental, so if there are
problems please be patient. However, comments are welcome.

The files are valid for the last 24 hours, as the archive
is a rolling one.

Roger
Roger,
I thought that by decoding you referred to turning synops into a station
plot. Raw synops are fairly easily available, mainly from the US.
Then you draw the map, wherever you wish on the globe, varying the
lat/long - print plotted synops - bingo.
You get the standard WMO data in plotted form, but of course not the
CLIMAT data. Excellent for 3 hourly use and analysis.
Wouldn't we all to love to get our hands on station plots hourly.!
So we have to make do with DWD, or similar, plotted data, every 3 hours.
I find it pretty good for UK, although I think it is designed for A3 as
the plots badly overlap in places - especially Europe.

Regards

Paul
--
'Wisest are they that know they do not know.' Socrates.
Paul Bartlett FRMetS
www.rutnet.co.uk Go to local weather.
400FT AMSL 25Miles southwest of the Wash

In message , Roger Brugge
writes
I am in currently writing scripts to decode SYNOP reports
every 3 hours, day or night.

Output can be seen at
http://www.met.rdg.ac.uk/~brugge/00.html
(replace 00 with 03, 06, 09, 12, 15, 18 or 21 as required).

The scripts are a little temperamental, so if there are
problems please be patient. However, comments are welcome.

The files are valid for the last 24 hours, as the archive
is a rolling one.

Roger
Roger,
if you did reply would you be kind enough to drop the t at the end of
greemett

is my mail address.
Regards
Paul
--
'Wisest are they that know they do not know.' Socrates.
Paul Bartlett FRMetS
www.rutnet.co.uk Go to local weather.
400FT AMSL 25Miles southwest of the Wash

Paul Bartlett wrote:
In message , Roger Brugge
writes
I am in currently writing scripts to decode SYNOP reports
every 3 hours, day or night.

Output can be seen at
http://www.met.rdg.ac.uk/~brugge/00.html
(replace 00 with 03, 06, 09, 12, 15, 18 or 21 as required).

The scripts are a little temperamental, so if there are
problems please be patient. However, comments are welcome.

The files are valid for the last 24 hours, as the archive
is a rolling one.

Roger
Roger,
if you did reply would you be kind enough to drop the t at the end of
greemett

is my mail address.
Regards
Paul

Strange not to get any reply or acknowledgment from Roger, not like him ?

--
Keith (Southend)
http://www.southendweather.net
e-mail: kreh at southendweather dot net

Keith and Paul,

Thanks for the comments - I've been a bit busy
and away from my desk recently. Also, as you may
have seen I'm trying to sort out why the
decoding sometimes falls over.

Yes, plotting the obs would be the next logical step.
I'm thinking about how I could get as many obs plotted as possible
- possibly by having a large map and scrolling over it
as per the BBC TV forecasts?

Roger

Changes: 16.10.07
Maximum gust data added
Wind units clarified.

Roger

Roger Brugge wrote:
I am in currently writing scripts to decode SYNOP reports
every 3 hours, day or night.

Output can be seen at
http://www.met.rdg.ac.uk/~brugge/00.html
(replace 00 with 03, 06, 09, 12, 15, 18 or 21 as required).

The scripts are a little temperamental, so if there are
problems please be patient. However, comments are welcome.

The files are valid for the last 24 hours, as the archive
is a rolling one.

Roger

In message , Roger Brugge
writes
Changes: 16.10.07
Maximum gust data added
Wind units clarified.

Roger

Roger Brugge wrote:
I am in currently writing scripts to decode SYNOP reports
every 3 hours, day or night.
Output can be seen at
http://www.met.rdg.ac.uk/~brugge/00.html
(replace 00 with 03, 06, 09, 12, 15, 18 or 21 as required).
The scripts are a little temperamental, so if there are
problems please be patient. However, comments are welcome.
The files are valid for the last 24 hours, as the archive
is a rolling one.
Roger
Roger, Colin and I put a fair amount of work in 10 years ago, if you
want the data give me your address.
Cheers
Paul

--
'Wisest are they that know they do not know.' Socrates.
Paul Bartlett FRMetS
www.rutnet.co.uk Go to local weather.
400FT AMSL 25Miles southwest of the Wash