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Howdy, A reminder that this change just happened. The NWS National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) Central Operations (NCO) creates routine collectives of observational METAR data in SAUS70 KWBC, SAUS80 KWBC, SAUS90 KWBC and their counterparts for Special observations SPUS70, SPUS80 and SPUS90. These collectives require manual intervention to add METAR stations to them. These are then distributed over the SBN. Another product, SAUS99 KWBC, and the Special observation counterpart SPUS99 KWBC contain any METAR observation received every minute. Delivering SAUS99 and SPUS99 over the SBN rather than the aforementioned collectives will provide more observational data and more timely data to users of the SBN. The replacement with SAUS99 and SPUS99 is expected to occur on or about 1200 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), January 27, 2025. If a Critical Weather Day has been issued, this change will be postponed until 1200 UTC on the next non-Critical Weather Day. https://www.weather.gov/media/notification/pdf_2023_24/scn24-99_add_saus99_to_sbn_aaa.pdf So far, I have observed 265 SAUS99 products and 114 SPUS99 products cross the IDD since about 15 Z daryl
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