Much higher than typical October temperatures will continue across coastal southern California up through the Bay Area and Central Valley through midweek resulting in result in Major to Extreme HeatRisk. A tropical depression is likely to form over the Gulf of America during the middle part of this week with further strengthening possible as it moves northeastward later this week. Read More >
There are several options for obtaining Archive II data:
1) NCEI download from https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/nexradinv/
2) Iowa State download from https://mesonet-nexrad.agron.iastate.edu/level2/raw/
For the two methods above, use the RPG tool play_a2 to playback the Archive II files into a running RPG instance. See help at "play_a2 -h" from an RPG account.
3) RPG tool grab_level2 will directly access and start ingest of NCEI Archive II files from the cloud, eliminating the need for local storage space. See help at "grab_level2 -h" from an RPG account
4) RPG tool hci_read_l2 will directly access and start *live data* ingest of Archive II files from either NCEI or Iowa State in near real-time.
