NOAA Air Resources Laboratory

Meteorological Data Status at NOAA ARL

Current date time (UTC): Sun Nov 8 00:36:27 GMT 2009

When appropriate, updates on the status of our server will be sent to the READY mailing list and to the Current Operational News page at http://www.ready.noaa.gov/ready/opnews.html.

GREEN background indicates available data,
RED indicates file currently being updated.

DatasetResolutionUpdate IntervalCurrent Model Run (UTC)
Name(km)(hours)HourDayMonthYear
RUC 203 21 7 November 2009
NAM 126 18 7 November 2009
NAM ALASKA 453 18 7 November 2009
NAM 406 18 7 November 2009
GFS NH/SH 953 18 7 November 2009
GFSx NH/SH 956 18 7 November 2009
GFSlr NH/SH 19112 18 07 November 2009
RAMS Las Vegas NV 224 03 7 November 2009

The table above lists the date of the initialization or the start time of each model forecast currently available in the READY website.You will need to refresh this screen to update it.

For more information on the forecast datasets go to the forecast metdata webpage and for information on the archive datasets go to the archived metdata webpage.

If operations are running smoothly, the datasets should be updated at approximately the following times (UTC):


*                                                              *
*    Model Cycle:    0000 0300 0600 0900 1200 1500 1800 2100   *
*                    ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----   *
*    RUC             0200 0500 0800 1100 1400 1700 2000 2300   *
*    NAM 12 km       0400      1000      1600      2200        *
*    NAM 40 km       0315      0915      1515      2115        *
*    GFS             0600      1130      1800      0000        *
*    GFSx            0630      1215      1830      0030        *
*    GFSlr           0600      1130      1800      0000        *
*    RAMS Las Vegas       1000                                 *
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