New Forecast Soundings Online - SHARPpy

[John Shewchuk]

George,

You can send me any sounding file, and I can encode it into any format requested. I do this for many who want to test RAOB's abilities. I'm sure your suggested NOAA => RAOB => SHARPpy data conversion process can work.

 

[James K]

I know I'm replying to an old thread here but...I found it while google'ing for issues I'm having with SHARPpy (hopefully someone with close technical knowledge of SHARPpy will see this).
first the background:
I downloaded SHARPpy (the windows binary) awhile back, then finally just recently installed it. The install appeared to work fine (no errors or anything),
but when I tried running it, it said: "api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll" not found. (I downloaded said .dll & put it in the correct windows subdirectory,
then it said: "api-ms-win-core-localization-l1-2-0.dll" not found. (again downloaded /placed .dll )
now I get an unable to start correctly (0xc00007b) error.

Googling more with the above .dll names, I found they're in a "Universal C Runtime In Windows" (also known as KB2999226) download.
With a bunch of google'ing I never could find the needed download (every useless website that mentioned it just pointed to a microsoft server (not an option since anything microsoft is blocked (purposely) by my network))
Deeper google'ing revealed that KB2999226 appears to contain telemetry (ie: spyware), so simply installing that isn't an optino...I need to do things manually
what I need to know is exactly what files .dll/etc are dependency's for SHARPpy??

-thanks

 

[rdale]

Double-check the website, you’ll see a note that says this latest release does not work on Windows. You need to go back a small version.

 

[James K]

@rdale:
I see that now. I either missed it, or it wasn't posted back when I originally downloaded.
I decided to try back to the 1.3 version, and that runs just fine!

I originally kept getting a:
SHARPpy broke. This is probably due to an issue with one of the data source servers, but if it keeps happening, send the detailed information to the developers.

SHARPpy v1.3.0 Xenia
Crash time: 2020-04-26 10:04:03.322000
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\Heather\SHARPpy\runsharp\build\SHARPpy-win7-32\out00-PYZ.pyz\full_gui", line 54, in doCrasher
File "C:\Users\Heather\SHARPpy\runsharp\build\SHARPpy-win7-32\out00-PYZ.pyz\full_gui", line 355, in complete_name
File "C:\Users\Heather\SHARPpy\runsharp\build\SHARPpy-win7-32\out00-PYZ.pyz\full_gui", line 471, in skewApp
IOError: File 'http: //www.spc.noaa.gov/exper/soundings/20042612_OBS/DNR.txt' cannot be found
So I tried the named link in a browser & it worked there...after that SHARPpy worked too. So I'm assuming it was one of those temporary glitches

One interesting I learned today from this: soundings are just a simple human-readable text file.