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For users geting synops and metar reports using scripts we've wrote getsynop and getmetar. It will create files with reports in CSV format (plain text) without html tags.

Again the main ogimet server has been hosted in a new dedicated server contributed by meteored. This new server is plenty of CPU and memory so it is expected to be more responsive. Some new funcionalities are possible. Now you can pick METAR reports since January 1 2005.

Main ogimet server has been hosted in a dedicated server contributed by meteored which is the best general meteorology site in spanish language. Granada University server is working as a backup

Ogimet server is now hosted in the Department of Histology of Granada University. Thanks to Dr. José Manuel García López for this support. Hope this will make Ogimet responses faster.

Data base for SYNOP (FM 12-XI), SHIP (FM 13-XI), SYNOP-MOBIL(FM 14-XI) and BUOY (FM 18-XII) has been revised and increased. Now data is accesible online since 1 January 2000 till now. Ogimet database has surpassed 350 million reports. We are also working in extending available upper air data

Ogimet now can display CLIMAT report monthly summaries WMO(FM71-XI) decoded and undecoded. They are usualy available during fisrt 10 days in next month. Not all countries usually release CLIMAT reports and also the included sections may differ from a place to another

Two new special zones for GFS forecast maps has been included. They are China and India, the two most populated countries in the world

Since January 1 at 00 UTC eumetsat has changed the disemination scheme for its free real-time METEOSAT images. Because of this, the ogimet METEOSAT products could not be online till today January 4th. During these days we've adpating the software to new eutmetsat products. AT the moment, we use the MPE product, which combine the infrared 10.8 image with a precipitaction estimation. In addition, we have now an image every 15 minutes

Since September 1st Ogimet begun to store in its database buoys reports (BUOY FM-18, you can get all WMO codes from this WMO page). All the meteorological air data from these reports also are plotted in synop navigator page

After some aditional work, we finally included a GSOD data navigator. You can see over maps the data from NOAA Global Summary Of the Day (GSOD). You can move around the world and over the time

To celebrate the spring season (fall in Southern Hemisphere) ogimet data base has increased a bit. We've included data derived from NOAA Global Summary Of the Day (GSOD).. This data include daily summaries since 1929, but only after 1971 the number of station is really important around the world. Remember that those data are under some use restrictions as they are affected by WMO Resolution 40. You can select GSOD derived tables from here

New Zealand zone has been included in special zone list after petition of some users

On friday March 2nd, ogimet server crashed again. This time was the graphic card and a memory module. Till today at 15 UTC it could not be repaired. Because of that, ogimet was inoperative during these days. The basic report data was collected also by other systems, so there is no lack of data in Database.

After some proofs and tries, in surface forecast maps of GFS special zones we now plot the contours of aeras where precipitation is snow. We will see if this also can be extented to the rest of maps without complicate its interpretation

Because of its interest, the zone Antarctic Peninsula has been included into special zone list of maps to be plotted with GFS model forecasts. You can pick it from here. With this new addition, there are eleven zones with special interest for our users

Since GFS modeel run at Feb-05-2007 00 UTC, maps for H+108, H+132, H156 and H+180 has been included. As result, there are mapas from H+12 till H+72 every 6 hours, and from H+72 till H+180 every 12 hours. The access table has been modified according to new entries

In pages with animated loops of forecasts, we can now switch from a shorter loop H12-72 every 6 hours (default) to a big H12-180 every 12 hours

Since 23-Jan-2007 NOAA is updating its ftp site with reports every minute. Prior to that date, it was about five minutes. As a result we also update our database more often and the delay has been reduced

Added new page to select latest TAF reports in a country. You can check it here. As a collateral effect when writing the code, we discovered that some TAF reports were in METAR database tables. We've fixed this

Maximum age of Metar and Taf reports in database has been increased from 150 to 180 days.

Temporal interruption from 20:11 to 20:41 UTC to add a new memory module into the server. RAM memory changed from 1.5 to 2.0 GB

From 10:53 to 14:00 Ogimet has been disconnected to update the Operative System. OS upgrade from openSUSE 10.1 to openSUSE 10.2. No problems at all.

Still problems with ADSL/telephone line. GFS 00 UTC run has not been plotted. Line stuff is resvolved before 1 p.m. Hope now is definitive.

We have problems with our ADSL line. It is due to our ISP Telefonica. Even we have not telephone line. It has been resolved temporary in the morning. GFS 2006/12/24 00 UTC run has not been plotted, we could not get any grib field

We are suffering temporal interruptions in the Internet connection to NOAA. As most of data used in Ogimet are from this center, some of data and plots are delayed. Sorry by this inconvenient not caused by any problem at this site. We also would like to thank NOAA again by all the data it make accesible to the comunity. Many of weather sites around the world wouldn't be possible without the data available at NOAA, including Ogimet. We hope the problems will be fixed soon

Tables in Ogimet mysql database have a limited size of 4.2 GB. The size of main synop table reached this size some weeks ago and we have to delete old synops from this table. We've created a new database schema so old synops are placed in per_year tables. There is now the table 'synops_2005', and then again we have synops reports online from Jan-01-2005.

At October 28, 07:20 UTC, the power supply inside ogimet server had a severe failure and also damaged its motherboard. So Ogimet went offline till today when I've been able to restore all the services. No observation data has lost because I also download it in a independent system (precisely to avoid the effects of this crashes)

The nice side of the incident is now Ogimet runs in a very improved system. The processor is now an AMD Athlon64 Dual Core 4200+ (it was an Athlon 2500+), RAM memory has increased from 1.0 GB to 1.5 GB, and main Hard disks are now SATA 2 instead of IDE. Most of heavy tasks in the server, as the plots of GFS maps, now runs three time faster!

It almost two year ago Ogimet began, since January 1 2005. Since then, step by step, we have been improving and extending their services. Sometimes we have changed big chunks of code and added services without a notification in our pages. We think it is now the time to write a small log with all the interesting things or news for Ogimet users