Radar data and plotting in DA

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maxinminn
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Radar data and plotting in DA

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I'm a new DA user and I'm d/l'ing the RCM data from Albany and there is a huge file in the QUEUE.RCM, but when I ask it to plot radar it trys but nothing other than the title and level colors plot. Am I doing something wrong? Is there a better data source?

Thanks for any help I can get.
John
Carl Sidor
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DA Radar display

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Dear maxinimnn:

I've had a similar problem with DA. The only way that I have found around this difficulty is to download radar data separately. If I try to download with other data, i.e. METAR surface data, I get (unknown size) of 686K..
When I download it by itself I get a message that states how much data has downloaded already. (received 134K of 686K) When I see that, I know it will plot. Hope this will help until some better advice comes along.

Carl Sidor
maxinminn
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Post by maxinminn »

I've had a similar problem with DA. The only way that I have found around this difficulty is to download radar data separately. If I try to download with other data, i.e. METAR surface data, I get (unknown size) of 686K..
When I download it by itself I get a message that states how much data has downloaded already. (received 134K of 686K) When I see that, I know it will plot. Hope this will help until some better advice comes along.
I'll have to try that and see if it works. Seems like a lot of work to get the data, but during a storm it might be worth the effort.

John
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