Thread: Hourly SYNOPs
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Old January 12th 15, 02:36 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
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Default Hourly SYNOPs
On Mon, 12 Jan 2015 06:06:44 -0800 (PST),
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I keep getting people saying that SYNOP data will be discontinued
but its managed to survive to 2015 thank goodness.

SYNOP data _has_ been discontinued as the primary medium for
transmission. It is BUFR data 're-encoded into SYNOP that you are
seeing. But that service won't last forever. Best to make the jump to
BUFR - there are free decoders available.

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