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• Date: 7/17/95 13:56

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NATIONAL TECHNICAL INFORMATION MESSAGE 95-26 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HEADQUARTERS
200 PM EDT MON JUL 17 1995
     
TO:         USERS OF NWS PRODUCTS RECEIVED FROM THE NATIONA/ 
OF SYSTEMS OPERATIONS)
     
NOTE TO NWWS USERS:  THE FOLLOWING NOTICE WILL HAVE NO IMPACT TO 
NWWS USERS AND IS BEING PROVIDED SOLELY FOR INFORMATION.  
     
     THE IMPLEMENTATION DATE FOR THE REPLACEMENT OF SURFACE
AVIATION OBSERVATIONS (SAOs) WITH METAR FORMATTED SURFACE 
OBSERVATION WEATHER REPORTS HAS BEEN INITIALLY PUSHED BACK FROM 
JANUARY 1 1996 TO JULY 1 1996.  SUBSEQUENTLY THERE HAVE BEEN 
DISCUSSIONS BETWEEN`/ENTATION DATE FOR THE DOMESTIC DISSEMINATION OF 
METAR DATA HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED AN EXTENSIVE NOTIFICATION EFFORT 
WILL BE MADE TO A LARGE COMMUNITY OF USERS.  IN ADDITION 
NOTIFICATION WILL ALSO BE POSTED ON A NOAA GOPHER SERVER ON THE 
INTERNET.  THE ADDRESS FOR THIS SERVER IS:  140.90.5.206.
     
     WHERE METAR OBSERVATIONS ARE BEING TAKEN AND DISSEMINATED
NOW THE NEW METAR CODE IS STILL ON SCHEDULE TO BE IMPLEMENTED ON|/L COORDINATED 
TIME (UTC). 
FOR THE NWS SITES IN THE U.S. THIS WILL ONLY AFFECT THE METAR 
REPORTS WHICH ARE COMPUTER-GENERATED AT THE NWS TELECOMMUNICATION 
GATEWAY FOR INTERNATIONAL DISSEMINATION.
     
     ALSO EFFECTIVE ON JANUARY 1 1996 THE NEW TERMINAL AERODROME
FORECAST (TAF) CODE WILL BE IMPLEMENTED INTERNATIONALLY.  FOR NWS 
SITES IN THE U.S. THE NEW TAF CODE WILL BE IMPLEMENTED ON JANUARY
1 1996 FOR THE APPROXIMATELY 80 TAF PRODUCTS WHIC/ING USERS WITH THE METAR 
FORMAT
TWO SYNTHETICALLY PRODUCED COLLECTIVES OF METAR-FORMATTED 
OBSERVATIONS AND SPECIALS FROM 250 FIRST-ORDER NWS STATIONS WILL 
BECOME AVAILABLE ON JULY 19 1995.  THESE OBSERVATIONS WILL BE 
GENERATED BY COMPUTER AT THE NWS TELECOMMUNICATION G
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