Greetings,
I was reviewing my IDS|DDPLUS archival and noticed that my hourly files have a
large variance in size.
26M 2026012104.txt
390M 2026012105.txt
27M 2026012106.txt
...snipped...
30M 2026012116.txt
387M 2026012117.txt
27M 2026012118.txt
So I had a look at my LDM telemetry logging and see the the following byte
counts for IDS|DDPLUS for the 17 UTC hour today
wmo_ttaaii | sum
------------+------------
SDCN01 | 1700051333
LDUD00 | 34844596
LDUD06 | 34771861
LDUD12 | 34731012
LDUE00 | 34702011
LDUD18 | 34668540
LDUE06 | 34664366
LDUE12 | 34593737
LDUH12 | 34560734
LDUE18 | 34527322
LDUH06 | 34485257
LDUF06 | 34466943
LDUF00 | 34458010
LDUF12 | 34452545
LDUF18 | 34412543
LDUH00 | 34405475
LDUG18 | 34382563
LDUG00 | 34381983
LDUG06 | 34376450
LDUG12 | 34366267
LDUH18 | 16845611
Of course, the Canadian RADAR (SDCN01) is well known fun that I was already
excluding from the file write, but what is LDUD00? Well, it is grib data:
LDUD00 KWBN 211200
GRIB^@^@^A^B...
So folks may wish to update their pqact's to exclude these as well!
daryl