What happened to the ftp site weather.noaa.gov?

[Paul Tomblin]

I have a script that generates a custom web page of TAFs and METARs for
airports that I'm interested in so I can quickly access that information
from my Treo. I just noticed that it's been broken since late January
because it's unable to ftp to weather.noaa.gov. Does anybody know if that
site is gone for good or just moved? I know Rick "Man on Dog" Santorum
was trying to prevent the NOAA from giving us the weather information we
paid them to collect, but he's out now so I was hoping that particular bit
of political idiocy was over.

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[Hamish Reid]

In article >,
(Paul Tomblin) wrote:

> I have a script that generates a custom web page of TAFs and METARs for
> airports that I'm interested in so I can quickly access that information
> from my Treo. I just noticed that it's been broken since late January
> because it's unable to ftp to weather.noaa.gov. Does anybody know if that
> site is gone for good or just moved? I know Rick "Man on Dog" Santorum
> was trying to prevent the NOAA from giving us the weather information we
> paid them to collect, but he's out now so I was hoping that particular bit
> of political idiocy was over.

Paul -- if you go to http://weather.noaa.gov, you'll see a little
messaget taht says something like anon ftp no longer supported, please
ftp to tgftp.nws.noaa.gov...

Hamish

[Paul Tomblin]

In a previous article, Hamish Reid > said:
>In article >,
> (Paul Tomblin) wrote:
>> from my Treo. I just noticed that it's been broken since late January
>> because it's unable to ftp to weather.noaa.gov. Does anybody know if that
>
>Paul -- if you go to http://weather.noaa.gov, you'll see a little
>messaget taht says something like anon ftp no longer supported, please
>ftp to tgftp.nws.noaa.gov...

Duh, why didn't I think of that? I blame the airsickness - I was out
practicing stalls and steep turns for my BFR and I had to do it above a
cloud layer so I didn't have a good horizon.

Thanks, Hamish.

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[virtuPIC]

On 11 Mrz., 21:20, (Paul Tomblin) wrote:
> In a previous article, Hamish Reid > said:
> >> from my Treo. I just noticed that it's been broken since late January
> >> because it's unable to ftp to weather.noaa.gov. Does anybody know if that
>
> >Paul -- if you go tohttp://weather.noaa.gov, you'll see a little
> >messaget taht says something like anon ftp no longer supported, please
> >ftp to tgftp.nws.noaa.gov...

....or have a look at http://www.airspace-v.com to get it mapped on
Google Maps with more information like airfield coordinates and winds
and temperatures aloft.

virtuPIC
--
Airspace V - international hangar flying
http://www.airspace-v.com

[Hamish Reid]

In article >,
(Paul Tomblin) wrote:

> In a previous article, Hamish Reid > said:
> >In article >,
> > (Paul Tomblin) wrote:
> >> from my Treo. I just noticed that it's been broken since late January
> >> because it's unable to ftp to weather.noaa.gov. Does anybody know if that
> >
> >Paul -- if you go to http://weather.noaa.gov, you'll see a little
> >messaget taht says something like anon ftp no longer supported, please
> >ftp to tgftp.nws.noaa.gov...
>
> Duh, why didn't I think of that? I blame the airsickness - I was out
> practicing stalls and steep turns for my BFR and I had to do it above a
> cloud layer so I didn't have a good horizon.

Yeah, yeah, that's what they all say :-). Actually, having just
completed my own BFR, I can commiserate...

Hamish

[Paul Tomblin]

In a previous article, "virtuPIC" > said:
>On 11 Mrz., 21:20, (Paul Tomblin) wrote:
>> In a previous article, Hamish Reid > said:
>> >> from my Treo. I just noticed that it's been broken since late January
>> >> because it's unable to ftp to weather.noaa.gov. Does anybody know if that
>>
>> >Paul -- if you go tohttp://weather.noaa.gov, you'll see a little
>> >messaget taht says something like anon ftp no longer supported, please
>> >ftp to tgftp.nws.noaa.gov...
>
>...or have a look at http://www.airspace-v.com to get it mapped on
>Google Maps with more information like airfield coordinates and winds
>and temperatures aloft.

Doesn't help me with my cell phone - the built in browser can't do Google
Maps.


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If you don't pay for criminally bad software through the nose, you will
never realize how much you are being ripped off!
-- Pim van Riezen

[Judah]

(Paul Tomblin) wrote in
:

> Doesn't help me with my cell phone - the built in browser can't do
> Google Maps.

That's OK - he doesn't really care about your problem. He's just advertising
his web site....

[Robert M. Gary]

On Mar 12, 4:52 am, (Paul Tomblin) wrote:
> In a previous article, "virtuPIC" > said:
>
> >On 11 Mrz., 21:20, (Paul Tomblin) wrote:
> >> In a previous article, Hamish Reid > said:
> >> >> from my Treo. I just noticed that it's been broken since late January
> >> >> because it's unable to ftp to weather.noaa.gov. Does anybody know if that
>
> >> >Paul -- if you go tohttp://weather.noaa.gov, you'll see a little
> >> >messaget taht says something like anon ftp no longer supported, please
> >> >ftp to tgftp.nws.noaa.gov...
>
> >...or have a look athttp://www.airspace-v.comto get it mapped on
> >Google Maps with more information like airfield coordinates and winds
> >and temperatures aloft.
>
> Doesn't help me with my cell phone - the built in browser can't do Google
> Maps.

I use aviationweather.gov on my cell phone. The graphics are basic
enough that most cell phone browers do fine with it. Most of my
students have not had any issues using aviationweather.gov from their
cell phone browsers.

-Robert