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Showers and Storms continue across the East; Heat, Critical Fire Weather, Drought, and Poor Air Quality continues in the West

A series of fronts will focus locally heavy showers and storms across portions of the central and eastern U.S. through the end of the workweek. Dangerous to extreme heat continues across the Southwest U.S., eventually spreading eastward over the weekend into early next week. Elevated fire weather conditions continue across the Great Basin, with degraded air quality lingering across the Northwest. Read More >

 

Instructions

 

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.