Severe weather and flooding threats will continue for portions of the central U.S. through Thursday, focused from the central High Plains to the Mid-Mississippi Valley. Hot and dry conditions will fuel fire weather concerns for the Intermountain West, and dry thunderstorms may spark additional wildfires. Dangerous heat will build across the southern U.S. Friday into the weekend. 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.
