• After witnessing the continued decrease of involvement in the SpotterNetwork staff in serving SN members with troubleshooting issues recently, I have unilaterally decided to terminate the relationship between SpotterNetwork's support and Stormtrack. I have witnessed multiple users unable to receive support weeks after initiating help threads on the forum. I find this lack of response from SpotterNetwork officials disappointing and a failure to hold up their end of the agreement that was made years ago, before I took over management of this site. In my opinion, having Stormtrack users sit and wait for so long to receive help on SpotterNetwork issues on the Stormtrack forums reflects poorly not only on SpotterNetwork, but on Stormtrack and (by association) me as well. Since the issue has not been satisfactorily addressed, I no longer wish for the Stormtrack forum to be associated with SpotterNetwork.

    I apologize to those who continue to have issues with the service and continue to see their issues left unaddressed. Please understand that the connection between ST and SN was put in place long before I had any say over it. But now that I am the "captain of this ship," it is within my right (nay, duty) to make adjustments as I see necessary. Ending this relationship is such an adjustment.

    For those who continue to need help, I recommend navigating a web browswer to SpotterNetwork's About page, and seeking the individuals listed on that page for all further inquiries about SpotterNetwork.

    From this moment forward, the SpotterNetwork sub-forum has been hidden/deleted and there will be no assurance that any SpotterNetwork issues brought up in any of Stormtrack's other sub-forums will be addressed. Do not rely on Stormtrack for help with SpotterNetwork issues.

    Sincerely, Jeff D.

NAM

It don't think it's a NAM problem -- I think it's a CoD grahpics-generation problem. Try emailing the webmaster (he's always been pleasant to me when I've emailed him about stuff like this).
 
Yeah I noticed the problem too a few days ago. I noticed it on the UCAR site so it's just more than one site that is messed up I guess. I was curious if anybody else had noticed but I guess others have noticed it as well.
 
The CONDUIT hi-res model feed from NCEP has been bad the past few days, with many dropouts and hours of missing data. It's an NCEP problem and they know about it. The lower resolution feeds are still working fine, but obviously most sources rely on the best available output...
 
Problems with models

COD used to be my preferred site for models. Sometime last fall, a few of the NAM products stopped updating. Recently, COD is much worse and the majority of their NAM products are old. I *think* the GFS and other models are still OK on the COD site. Recently, within the last few days, UCAR has become complete garbage. I just took a quick look at UCAR GFS, some of the products are current, while others are several days old....

Does anyone know of any other sites with current models? Unisys products seem to be current, but they have relatively few model products.

Thanks in advance,
- bill
 
COC

I for one have given up hope for COD. I used to love going there for model information. Now, it's pointless. I go there and click on a product and all I see is a white screen, or a computer model graphic not completed
 
UCAR and CoD are both having problems off and on for a while. Don't know if it's site specific or a problem with the models. I second the need for some alternative sites. Unisys doesn't have enough products as Bill noted.
Thanks in advance!!!
 
UCAR and CoD are both having problems off and on for a while. Don't know if it's site specific or a problem with the models.

As mentioned in my previous reply - the CONDUIT feed (which supplies model data to a majority of Internet sites) was bad. It was fixed with the 18Z run today.
 
Does anyone know of any other sites with current models? Unisys products seem to be current, but they have relatively few model products.

Thanks in advance,
- bill

If you go to this link: http://www.ucar.edu/governance/members/institutions.shtml

You can browse to many and various websites at the different universities that are UCAR members and have weather and/or model information available. I've found a couple of others that I really like such as Ohio State, University of Nebraska, OU, Penn State and many others. Have fun!!
 
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