"Joachim Schug" schreef

: We have noticed that SFUK (lightning reports) are apparently no
longer
: available...as maps:
snip :
: What's the reason? Has someone any idea, information?


"Colin Youngs" wrote in message...

This was asked on the NG a couple of weeks ago and Martin Rowley had
an
answer. I take the liberty of repeating it below.
______________

" ... I'm told by a reliable source that consequent upon an upgrade
of the
ATD system at Exeter (and allied outstations), the old-style SFLOC
bulletins
are no longer generated and therefore sites which rely on these
bulletins
have lost their access to such data. Whether there are plans to
replace said
bulletins I don't know, but I understand that when EGRR asked
various
'official' users of the bulletins whether they wanted them to
continue, the
response was indifferent ;-( "
Martin."

.... I haven't got anymore information apart from that I posted above;
as I understand things, the bulletins that used to appear under the
header "SFUK31 EGRR", in WMO code FM-82, are no longer generated as
there appeared to be little demand for them, at least in that format.
I believe that Exeter generate bulletins under different headers and
presumably in different formats (?BUFR and/or csv?) for NWSs because
these data are very valuable, but it presumably wasn't thought
necessary to continue with the code form above.

I can only advise that you try and make contact with Exeter Met Office
direct and see if they can provide you with an alternative; you are
not alone in asking - I believe others in Europe have been caught out
by this change, so the more requests made the better it would be.

Martin.



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