On Tuesday, 8 November 2016 08:05:35 UTC, Norman Lynagh wrote:
wrote:

Ogimet has developed an annoying habit lately of omitting 6-groups (rainfall)
from its synops. As an example, see Kirkwall (03017) for yesterday (the 7th).
I’m wondering if I’m missing rainfall thereby because, if so, it will be
screwing up my Scottish rainfall records. UKMO say the synops they broadcast
have all the 6-groups intact. I clicked on Ogimet’s “Contact” button
and sent them a complaint, but just got a non-delivery message Still, I
suppose what you don’t pay for you can hardly complain about, as my
sensible wife says.

Ian Bingham,
Inchmarlo, Aberdeenshire.
80m asl.

Hi Ian,

The full SYNOPs, including the 6-groups, can be found at

http://weather.cod.edu/digatmos/syn/


Not quite as user-friendly as OGIMET as there's a separate file for each hour.
Nevertheless, the info is all there.

Incidentally, the Kirkwall 6-groups at 0000z and 0600z yesterday were 6///1 and
6///2 respectively.

--
Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
303m a.s.l.
http://peakdistrictweather.org
@TideswellWeathr

Norman/Ian

Don't forget Florida State University either where I used to get my SYNOP data till OGIMET came along.

http://www.eoas.fsu.edu/rawdata/syn/...2016110718.syn

Interestingly the rainfall at Kirkwall was a trace at 1800 UTC.

03017 15683 /0410 10052 20006 30143 40176 56003 69902 333 10067
55300 20000 87/48=

and at 0000 UTC zero.

03017 15681 /2502 10038 21016 30118 40151 58017 60001 333 55///
20120 88/49=

There seems to be something odd going on here.

Bruce.