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The NOAA National Weather Service MicroART upper air system at Nome,
Alaska (WMO# 70200), will be decommissioned on or about July 24, 2009,
and installation of the new Radiosonde Replacement System (RRS) will
begin. No upper air observations will be provided from this office
while RRS is being installed.
Beginning August 3, 2009, or shortly thereafter, upper air observations
will be issued using the RRS and GPS Mark IIA Sippican radiosondes.
Please update your databases.
Questions on this change should be directed to: Kevin Schrab, NWS HQ, at
Kevin.Schrab@xxxxxxxx <mailto:Jim.osullivan@xxxxxxxx>