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@nawendt nawendt commented Dec 6, 2022

Per discussion in #2759, the option to parse SPECI observations was made into a user parameter and is off by default.

This was the most reasonable approach to extracting METAR data that I could think of. Sometimes GEMPAK will also have the standard METAR data as text. If I parsed that, the timestamps would be more precise. However, as @sgdecker had alluded to, users do not want to have to dig for the top of the hour observations. You do have AWOS that do standard reports every 20 minutes, but those are going to be less susceptible to the GEMPAK file time bin issue than SPECI reports. Unless there is a strong desire to also have the ability to parse standard observation text, then this should work for most people.

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Per discussion in Unidata#2759, the option to parse SPECI observations was
made into a user parameter and is off by default.
@nawendt nawendt requested a review from a team as a code owner December 6, 2022 21:05
@nawendt nawendt requested review from dopplershift and removed request for a team December 6, 2022 21:05
@dopplershift dopplershift added Type: Enhancement Enhancement to existing functionality Area: IO Pertains to reading data labels Dec 7, 2022
@dopplershift dopplershift added this to the November 2022 milestone Dec 7, 2022
@dopplershift dopplershift merged commit 4cc1df0 into Unidata:main Dec 7, 2022
@nawendt nawendt deleted the fix-surface branch April 25, 2024 23:34
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