On Saturday, 19 October 2013 14:45:49 UTC+1, Norman wrote:
Freddie wrote:



On Sat, 19 Oct 2013 05:39:31 -0700 (PDT), "Keith (Southend)G"

wrote:

Thanks Norman, I guess what will probably happen is certain

Countries will =

start to dissapear from the code until eventually they all cease.

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I think you're right, Keith. It is the case that some countries are more

prepared for the switch than others, so there won't be a single date that the

Synop code stops being used worldwide.



It is likely to be the case that web sites will pop up across the Internet

providing decoding services for the new format (BUFR). Who knows, they may

even offer the facility to encode into Synop!





My contacts in the USA think it is possible that the university sites will

convert the data from BUFR code and continue to present it on-line in SYNOP

code because there is such an extensive user community with systems based on

the SYNOP code (and other alpha-numeric codes). All speculation, of course.

We'll have to wait and see what evolves.



--

Norman Lynagh

Tideswell, Derbyshire

303m a.s.l.

Mmm, sounds like all bets are still on :-)

Out of interest is the BUFR code publicly available on the internet, I'd be interested to see it.

Still rainer here ~ 3.0mm so far

Keith (Southend)