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Hi There,

I'm trying to get Internet Data downloads with DWS, but it fails with

Digital Atmopshere encountered an error: '12/22/04 01:07:00' is not a valid date and time

What is the problem?

Thanks

James

» Starting Digital Atmosphere...
» Windows 5.1.2600
» 511.5 MB available
» 363.3 MB in use (71.0%)
» Digital Atmosphere ready
» Checking for core resource table updates...
» Updating core resource table...
» Searching directory for latest file...
» Retrieving http://weather.cod.edu/digatmos/sao/04122913.sao ...
» Transfer done
» Decoding METAR data...
» Decoding SAO data...
» Decoding synoptic data...
» Decoding model output data...
» Indexing upper air data...
» Ready.
» Retrieving http://www.met.fsu.edu/Data/archive/met ... 2913_metar ...
» Transfer done
» Indexing upper air data...
» Ready.
» Searching directory for latest file...
» Searching directory for latest file...
» Searching directory for latest file...
» Searching directory for latest file...
» Searching directory for latest file...
» Searching directory for latest file...
» Initializing variables...
» Indexing upper air data...
» Ready.
» Searching directory for latest file...
» Initializing variables...
» Indexing upper air data...
» Ready.
» Searching directory for latest file...
» Indexing upper air data...
» Ready.

It would help (me at least) if you also gave the actual script file that produced that script log.

Looks to me like the FSU data doesn't exist. You should probably keep your downloads to either COD or NY-Albany, they're pretty reliable.

hth,
Bob

Actually, FSU just changed the URLs

If you want metar, try
http://www.met.fsu.edu/rawdata/metar/
with time tokens of course.

http://www.met.fsu.edu/rawdata/syn
will get you synoptics plus buoys, mainly buoys on off synoptic hours.