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Haven't had time to go in depth but just testing the:
ANALYZE,HILO CONT CINT=4 COLOR=255:000:000 LINE=2 SLPR
ANALYZE,CONT CINT=2 COLOR=000:000:000 DASH=2 TEMP

works fine.

6 hour precip, will have to be customized...............

---BEGIN 6hr_precip.dsf---
LOAD,D:\Program Files\DigitalAtmosphereWS\maps\print\whatever.dmf

# DOWNLOAD, http://www.atmos.albany.edu/weather/data1/surface/sao/@Y@M@D@H_sao.wmo,D:\wx\scripts\ingest\metar.txt
# DOWNLOAD, http://www.atmos ...

The short answer is "yes". Search through this forum and you should find the scripts. You will probably have to cutomize them for the colors you want though.

Do a search in this forum. There are scripts that should meet your needs or at least get you on a real good start.

The other thing to consider is that DA has not been updated in years and some of the data formats and URL's have changed rendering DA inaccurate or "broken".

Do your headers have the space after the coma too? Look at the 2 examples. Grasping here..........

Did a little research for you. Here is the link to buoy data format: http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/General/NODC-Archive/f291.html


Here is the raw data for 41009 at 0200Z November 20th

****the raw data file from http://www.atmos.albany.edu/weather/dat ... @H_boy.wmo IS CORRUPT************
this is ALL ...

Your answer is: meters

Where did you getyour data? URL???

While I have never used this format, your qustion intrigued me so I did a little experimenting. The 1st few lines from "METAR from Australia BoM (AXF format via FTP):

[metar2Data]
ID_num, ID_name[6], Date, Time, Lat, Lon, Wdir, Wspd, T_DB, DP, QNH, RF9am, RF10m, Vis, AVis, Gust, Wx1Int, Wx1Dsc ...