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Service Change Notice 12-13
National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC
1116 AM EDT Wed Mar 21 2012
TO:Subscribers:
- Family of Services
- NOAA Weather Wire Service
- Emergency Managers Weather Information Network
- NOAAPORT
Other NWS Partners and NWS Employees
FROM:Matthew Peroutka
Chief, Product Generation Branch
Office of Science and Technology
SUBJECT:Discontinuance of the Experimental Recently
Updated Grids Service (RUGS)
On Friday, April 20, 2012, beginning at 1200 Coordinated Universal Time
(UTC), the experimental RUGS will be discontinued. In 2009, the NWS
established an Internet servicethat allowed users of the National
Digital Forecast Database (NDFD) to determine which files had been
recently updated.There has been little interest expressed in this
service since its implementation. Moreover, recent hardware failures
have made it impossible for the NWS to offer this service reliably.
If you have technical comments or questions, please contact:
Matthew Peroutka
National Weather Service
Meteorological Development Laboratory
Matthew.Peroutka@xxxxxxxx <mailto:Matthew.Peroutka@xxxxxxxx>
301-713-1768 x144
National Public Information Statements are online at:
http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm
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