[python-users] Reliable Siphon Source for Metar Data and Graceful Failure for NCSS empty queries

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Subject: [python-users] Reliable Siphon Source for Metar Data and Graceful Failure for NCSS empty queries
From: "Capehart, William J" <William.Capehart@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2021 18:19:35 +0000
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Hi All.

I’m adopting siphon and climbing its learning curve as a substitute for some of 
our LDM functionality and we’re running into a problem with finding a reliable 
source for a metars in real time.  My querries into unidata’s ncss via thredds 
is not always getting a steady stream.

Also along these lines, I’m also having some problems in getting siphon 
returning something other than a 404 crash on a ncss.get_data(query) when the 
search turns up no results for a time/location so I can jump to the next step 
in some of my automated scripting.

Is there an option here I’m missing on both issues (steady metars and a 
workable test on how many results my query will deliver)?

Cheers and Thanks
Bill
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