Lost access to this site?

[Keith (Southend)]

https://weather.cod.edu/digatmos/syn/?N=D

It's asking for a username and password. Anyone else finding this? After this I only have one other source for synops.

Keith (Southend)

[jack.h...@gmail.com]

It certainly gives a rude 'unauthorised' response to me.

Jack

[Keith (Southend)]

Perhaps it's time for me to scale back on decoding them, I retire at Christmas as well. I don't seem to have the contacts I used to have for such things. :-(

Keith (Southend)

[Metman2012]

Ogimet? https://www.ogimet.com/home.phtml.en. Though synops are no longer disseminated as far as I know, it's all GRIB (?) data now so you're dependant on someone translating them. Freddie should know more.

[Freddie]

Close - it's BUFR data.  I think SYNOP dissemination stopped around 2016 or so.  So Metman2012 is correct - you are at the mercy of translators.

[Keith (Southend)]

Yes fortunately Ogimet is the most comprehensive site for synops. There are some anomalies with it's decoding, namely, UK sunshine, it often gets rounded up/down, so that COD site was my first go to as the conversions seemed more accurate. I have a couple of links for Ogimet as the main one doesn't work on the cruise ships for some reason!

Before I used to have FSU, Albany.SA that used to list all the synops. Ogimet is my last line of defence. But you are right, synops are a thing from the past, I think it was 2006 when everything went to BUFR.

Does anyone know of any that are still running?

Thanks for your replies.

Keith (Southend)

[Freddie]

Definitely wasn't 2006 Keith.  The Met Office didn't start transmitting SYNOPs in BUFR until 2011-ish.  I worked on that project.  The 2016 date I gave was for the cessation of plain text SYNOPs worldwide.

[Keith (Southend)]

https://weather.cod.edu/digatmos/syn/?N=D

Seem,s to back now :-)

It must have been 2006 when I got wind of the demise of synops, but it was a few years before the switch was made.

Keith (Southend)