Aeroweathjer works fine for me
I’ve noticed for last couple of weeks the Aeroweather has TAF’s missing. Eg, EGJB and LFAT. These are available through Skydemon, so they must be different sources.
Peter wrote:
I wonder if @dnj knows any more e.g. does the XML interface contain the missing data?
Only just had a chance to look at this properly. Our app (not released yet) is METAR only at the moment, so we don’t monitor the availability or currency of the TAFs from NOAA, but it looks to be the same problem as with the METARs a while back – their XML API is “up” but the data it returns is not current. This still seems to be the case as of this morning.
I noticed last weekend (1st June) no TAFs for EGNS but didn’t look deeper at the time.
The problem is still occuring now, so it’s not clear when or if it will be fixed at all. Strange that it affects only certain airports, even within a given country, which suggests not an NOAA problem, but an upstream problem with whoever they take their feed from.
We use a secondary/backup source of METARs that is independant of the NOAA XML API for our app, but unfortunately it is METAR only.
Thanks dnj. If the XML shows the same issue then it clearly is not just some fontspec in the HTML which breaks the parsing one by most free websites.
I’ve got a query lodged with ForeFlight; they’re taking this rather seriously.
ADDS seems to have fixed the TAFs:
Metar
EGKK 130920Z VRB03KT CAVOK 18/08 Q1019
EGKA 130920Z 16008KT CAVOK 16/09 Q1019
EGHI 130920Z 17004KT 120V290 9999 FEW035 18/09 Q1019
EGHH 130920Z 18008KT 140V200 9999 FEW025 18/11 Q1019
EGHQ 130920Z 31006KT 270V340 9999 FEW018 15/11 Q1019
EGHC 130920Z 29008KT 9999 FEW010 SCT035 17/14 Q1020
EGHE 130920Z 28009KT 9999 FEW020 17/13 Q1020
TAF
EGKK 130458Z 1306/1412 VRB04KT 9999 FEW040 BECMG 1310/1314 21010KT TEMPO 1321/1408 8000 BKN010 PROB30 TEMPO 1402/1406 BKN008 TEMPO 1408/1412 22016G26KT 6000 RA BKN008
EGKA 130757Z 1309/1318 VRB03KT 9999 FEW045 BECMG 1309/1312 20010KT TEMPO 1315/1318 8000
EGHI 130806Z 1309/1318 19006KT 9999 FEW030
EGHH 130806Z 1309/1318 19008KT 9999 FEW030
EGHQ 130806Z 1309/1318 31008KT 9999 BKN008 BECMG 1309/1312 SCT030 BECMG 1312/1315 25010KT
EGHC 130806Z 1309/1318 31008KT 9999 FEW010 BECMG 1312/1315 25014KT
EGHE 130806Z 1309/1318 30010KT 9999 FEW020 BECMG 1312/1315 24012KT
Yes fixed.
