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NATIONAL TECHNICAL INFORMATION MESSAGE 95-26
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HEADQUARTERS
200 PM EDT MON JUL 17 1995
TO: USERS OF NWS PRODUCTS RECEIVED FROM THE NATIONA/
OF SYSTEMS OPERATIONS)
NOTE TO NWWS USERS: THE FOLLOWING NOTICE WILL HAVE NO IMPACT TO
NWWS USERS AND IS BEING PROVIDED SOLELY FOR INFORMATION.
THE IMPLEMENTATION DATE FOR THE REPLACEMENT OF SURFACE
AVIATION OBSERVATIONS (SAOs) WITH METAR FORMATTED SURFACE
OBSERVATION WEATHER REPORTS HAS BEEN INITIALLY PUSHED BACK FROM
JANUARY 1 1996 TO JULY 1 1996. SUBSEQUENTLY THERE HAVE BEEN
DISCUSSIONS BETWEEN`/ENTATION DATE FOR THE DOMESTIC DISSEMINATION OF
METAR DATA HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED AN EXTENSIVE NOTIFICATION EFFORT
WILL BE MADE TO A LARGE COMMUNITY OF USERS. IN ADDITION
NOTIFICATION WILL ALSO BE POSTED ON A NOAA GOPHER SERVER ON THE
INTERNET. THE ADDRESS FOR THIS SERVER IS: 140.90.5.206.
WHERE METAR OBSERVATIONS ARE BEING TAKEN AND DISSEMINATED
NOW THE NEW METAR CODE IS STILL ON SCHEDULE TO BE IMPLEMENTED ON|/L COORDINATED
TIME (UTC).
FOR THE NWS SITES IN THE U.S. THIS WILL ONLY AFFECT THE METAR
REPORTS WHICH ARE COMPUTER-GENERATED AT THE NWS TELECOMMUNICATION
GATEWAY FOR INTERNATIONAL DISSEMINATION.
ALSO EFFECTIVE ON JANUARY 1 1996 THE NEW TERMINAL AERODROME
FORECAST (TAF) CODE WILL BE IMPLEMENTED INTERNATIONALLY. FOR NWS
SITES IN THE U.S. THE NEW TAF CODE WILL BE IMPLEMENTED ON JANUARY
1 1996 FOR THE APPROXIMATELY 80 TAF PRODUCTS WHIC/ING USERS WITH THE METAR
FORMAT
TWO SYNTHETICALLY PRODUCED COLLECTIVES OF METAR-FORMATTED
OBSERVATIONS AND SPECIALS FROM 250 FIRST-ORDER NWS STATIONS WILL
BECOME AVAILABLE ON JULY 19 1995. THESE OBSERVATIONS WILL BE
GENERATED BY COMPUTER AT THE NWS TELECOMMUNICATION G
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