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Thanks for the pointer folks.
I've cobbled together a python script to edit the ogimet output
I hope it works for you
I've done nothing clever to select the data, if the ogimet txt file format changes, some tweaks may be required.

# file to read ogimet SYNOP format files and write a SYNOP ascii ...

I've had the same problem for a while too.

Yes - I have the same error message.

I have to same problem
Ian

Yes - and upper air data won't plot either.

Looks like my edit of the longitude for one location followed by a save didn't quite save properly for some reason - although it was a csv file.
I've re-re-done it and everything now appears to be OK. Interesting.

Hi Folks,

I have one problem.
When trying to read the new station table I get an error:
"Too many stations in station table. Can only hold 20000".
DA then crashes.

Has anyone seen this error?
Ian

Many thanks for the update Wally, much appreciated as always.

One tweak with ICAO code OINK in Iran:
Gonbad Ghabus is 37.25 N 55.1 EAST with an elevation of 32.6 m.
as checked by:
from ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/noaa/isd-history.txt
http://weather.rap.ucar.edu/surface/stations.txt similar

On ...

and don't forget the high resolution fronts http://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/discussions/codsus_hr
and you can also download them for each of the three hour periods
http://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/discussions/codsus00_hr
http://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/discussions/codsus03_hr
http://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov ...

Thanks for the updates Wally - much appreciated.

I just noticed some rather cold temperatures in the eastern Atlantic! A Swiss station had a minus sign (W) in the longitude rather than a positive number (E).
Tracked it down to:
06725 Blatten (Loetschental) which is 46 25 14 N 007 49 24 E according ...