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It sounds as though you need to copy that exact email to BOM<div><br></div><div>David</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On 23 Jan 2010, at 13:53, Geoff wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"> <div class="Section1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">Unfortunately it has EVERYTHING to do with the way BoM issue their warnings.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">If you take a look at the warning in question, it is a “Coastal Waters Wind Warning for NSW waters south of Crowdy Head”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">Within that warning there are three Gale warnings and a Strong Wind Warning. No matter what we have done with the scripts that parse the text so far, we have never been able to reliably pull out the individual warnings accurately, given that it is entirely free-text format.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">If BoM did things “properly” there would be four separate warnings:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span>Gale Warning For the South Coast, Illawarra Coast From Gabo Island to Port Hacking<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span>Gale Warning For the Hunter Coast, Sydney Coast, From Port Hacking to Broken Bay<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span>Gale Warning For Sydney Closed Waters Port Jackson, Botany Bay and Pittwater<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span>Strong Wind Warning For the Mid North Coast Seal Rocks to Crowdy Head<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">If BoM decide to implement the nice XML formatting of warnings nationally that they have been trialling very secretively in VK3 (we only found them by mistake the other day) then we would be able to EASILY break a warning into the correct parts – even specifying the exact shapefile segments to light up – but I doubt that will happen for a L-O-N-G time…. </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#1F497D">L</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">The way the scripts work at present is to assign the HIGHEST level to all the affected areas, which is why you are seeing the Gale warning.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">Geoff<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <div> <div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> ozaprs-bounces@aprs.net.au [<a href="mailto:ozaprs-bounces@aprs.net.au">mailto:ozaprs-bounces@aprs.net.au</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Scott Evans<br> <b>Sent:</b> Saturday, January 23, 2010 12:02 PM<br> <b>To:</b> Australian APRS Users<br> <b>Subject:</b> Re: [OZAPRS] Weather<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> </div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">I think it has a lot to do with how the BoM format their warnings and the perl script picking out the relevant bits etc... <br> <br> <br> <br> On Sat, 2010-01-23 at 11:09 +1100, Ray Wells wrote: <o:p></o:p></p> <pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Hi All,<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>I guess this is aimed at Geoff more than anyone else and, it's not a <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>complaint.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>I use xastir and I get maritime weather warnings that do not agree with <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>BoM warnings.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Earlier this morning I had a wind warning (but no icon). This later <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>change to displaying the MNC_GLE icon. There is currently only a strong <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>wind warning for mid north coastal waters and not a gale warning. The <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>nearest gale warning are for the Illawarra and further south.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>My question for Geoff is, is this due to shortcomings in the way the BoM <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>issue warnings?<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>I've just checked the xastir display at the radio station and it is also <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>displaying a gale warning, which tends to rule out a particular <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>installation having an issue.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Ray vk2tv<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>OZAPRS mailing list<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="mailto:OZAPRS@aprs.net.au">OZAPRS@aprs.net.au</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="http://lists.aprs.net.au/mailman/listinfo/ozaprs">http://lists.aprs.net.au/mailman/listinfo/ozaprs</a><o:p></o:p></pre><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100.0%"> <tbody><tr> <td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><br> --<br> <b>Scott Evans VK7HSE</b><br> <b>Phone: +61362291658</b><br> <b>Mobile: +61417586157</b><br> <b>Skype: vk7hse</b><br> <b><a href="mailto:scott@vk7hse.hobby-site.org">scott@vk7hse.hobby-site.org</a></b><br> <b><a href="http://www.vk7hse.hobby-site.org">http://www.vk7hse.hobby-site.org</a></b><br> <b>PGP/GPG Key ID 437E00F9</b><br> <span><image001.png></span><o:p></o:p></p> </td> </tr> </tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> </div> <span><image001.png></span><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">OZAPRS mailing list</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="mailto:OZAPRS@aprs.net.au">OZAPRS@aprs.net.au</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://lists.aprs.net.au/mailman/listinfo/ozaprs">http://lists.aprs.net.au/mailman/listinfo/ozaprs</a></div> </blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>