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I don't know if anyone else is experienced this problem or not, but for some unknown reason, DAWS will not ingest and produce any upper air maps. Here is the deal....

I select the data I need to download, and it gets it. It then goes through it's normal routine of processing data until it reaches "decoding rawinson data", then stops. I wait and wait, and it still remains there. I then click to exit the program, and it quits. When I click to exit DAWS, it says it's not responding.

I get no errors of any kind, and it processes metar and other data just fine. If anyone can help, please let me know.

Thanks,
Randy

I'm having the same problem decoding rawinsonde data Randy. I thought it was just me until I read your post. Since it happened to me about a day after I installed the DAWS 1.1h patch from 1.1c1 (March 29), I thought there might be some kind of conflict with my OS. However when I didn't find anything, I tried running 1.1c1 on my laptop and encountered the same problem on it.

I've tried retrieving other data such as METAR, SYNOP, etc ... one at a time from different locations. They download and decode just fine. The problem seems to be only with the rawinsonde data and the particular download site doesn't matter. I'm wondering if there could be a minor change in the rawinsonde code that's causing DAWS to hangup when its trying to decode the rawinsonde data?

I'd appreciate it also if anyone has any ideas on this and how widespread the problem is. I'm using DAWS 1.1h with XP (SP 1).

Thanks!

Jerry

Here's a temporary work around. I just saved the current 00z rawinsonde data from http://www.rap.ucar.edu/weather/upper/Current.rawins to a text file and imported it into DAWS (from the File menu in the upper left corner to Import A File - not Import Grib data) and it processed the data just fine. The downside is that you can't switch between it and other data such as METAR easily. However, maybe this will help temporarily.

Jerry

Hi Jerry:

Interestingly, this problem for me occured just this morning. Prior to this,
everything was fine. I'll try the workaround, and see what happens.

I'll be in touch....................

Randy

I am suffering from the same problem. My guess is there is something in the upper air data thats been changed/added thats crashing daws.

Very Strange, seems to have sorted itself out now.

Yes.....I am also having this problem with my scripts. Downloads with the workchart seem to work. Strange.

Yes it's hanging again ingesting rawinsond data when I run a script.

... and I have the same problem too with running the upper air. DAWS crash when it reach the point to decode the METARs. I think too that something has changed with the data packets

Whew - I thought something terrible had happened to my system but after checking the forum I see that there must be something wrong with the data files, instead. The problem - whatever it is - appears pervasive and serious. The symptoms are generally:

1. Crash on decode
2. Hang on scripting
3. Deathly slow analysis

I hope the data servers haven't been hacked and infected! But for sure, something has changed and we weren't warned!