I thought several years ago, the SACNxx collectives that had these SA
reports were removed
completely by EC from the data lines, and all these site's observations
moved to XML format,
which can be found here:
http://dd.weather.gc.ca/observations/swob-ml/
Are these SAs still showing up on NOAAPort or other feeds?
Boris
On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 3:16 PM, Larry D. Oolman <ldoolman@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Most of the 'SA' that I have looked at appear to be part of an
> agricultural network in the Canadian heartland.
>
> For gempak users, dcmetr handles these fine also.
>
> On 08/15/2017 11:02 AM, Stephen Adams wrote:
>
>> Daryl,
>>
>> The SA code was the precursor to METAR. SA stands for Surface Airways I
>> believe. Why the Canadians are so insistent about continuing to output data
>> in this outdated format, I can't say. The old WXP decoder "sacvt" can
>> decode this format.
>>
>> Steve
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>> On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 11:26 AM, daryl herzmann <akrherz@xxxxxxxxxxx
>> <mailto:akrherz@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> In today's adventure of curiousity killing the cat, I wonder about
>> the following product:
>>
>> SACN90 CWAO 151600 RRA
>> WFF SA 1600 AUTO8 M M M 087/18/14/1813+19/M/ PK WND 1920 1510Z
>> 3004 90MM=
>> WFP SA 1600 AUTO8 M M M 128/10/09/0902/M/0008 2009 86MM=
>>
>> So for the TTAAII header of "SACN90", it seems that the usage of 'SA'
>> should dictate FM 15 (METAR) format as per:
>>
>> http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/www/ois/Operational_Informatio
>> n/Publications/WMO_386/AHLsymbols/TableB1.html
>> <http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/www/ois/Operational_Informati
>> on/Publications/WMO_386/AHLsymbols/TableB1.html>
>>
>> Is this "SA" format some variation on METAR documented somewhere or
>> is the WMO header just wrong for this product?
>>
>> thanks for educating me!
>> daryl
>>
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