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>From: alan anderson <address@hidden> >Organization: St. Cloud State >Keywords: 200101081819.f08IJqo10998 McIDAS weather symbol Alan, Sorry I couldn't respond to this earlier... >My colleague reminded me this morning that MCIDAS apparently is still >using outdated FAA coding expressions, at least in some products, rather >than those standard with NWS METARs. > >Examples include that in the command SFCLIST, under the column for Weather, > > Light rain showers should now be coded as -RA not RW- > > ice pellots should now be coded as PL not IP > > light snow should now be coded as -SN not S- > > >The raw data listings are ok, i.e. raw METARs, but products that >MCIDAS 'decodes' appear with these old expressions. > >I assume that this is something that has just not changed from the >'old' system, but the METAR code has now been the official standard >for a few years. > >Could you check on this? I am CCing this to a developer at SSEC for review. Tom Yoksas