2014-07-23

Aircraft reports visualize traffic avoiding Ukraine and Libya

First of all, I'd like to express deepest condolences for lives lost in
Ukraine.

Meteo-France publishes near-real time coverage maps of meteorological
observation reports.
http://www.meteo.fr/special/minisites/monitoring/DATA_COVERAGE/dcover.html

The aircraft reports indicates there are voids over Ukraine and Lybia.
http://www.meteo.fr/special/dde/monitoring/DATA_COVERAGE/PNG/BEFORE_SCREENING/avions.00.assim_cpl.png
(URL points to a file which will be overwritten everyday)

maintenance outage of SENDAI and WAKAMATSU wind profilers

RTH Tokyo issued an announcement:

http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/raw/no/nojp01.rjtd..txt
(note the URL points to a file that is overwritten by following messages)

NOJP01 RJTD 230133
SUBJECT:OUT OF SERVICE INFORMATION
THE OBSERVATION SITES OF WIND PROFILER INCLUDED IN IUPC41-50 RJTD
WILL BE OUT OF SERVICE THE FOLLOWING SCHEDULE.
SITE DATE PERIOD
47590 SENDAI 30-JUL ABOUT 8 HOURS BETWEEN 00UTC TO 08UTC
47590 SENDAI 31-JUL ABOUT 8 HOURS BETWEEN 00UTC TO 08UTC
47590 SENDAI 1-AUG ABOUT 8 HOURS BETWEEN 00UTC TO 08UTC
47570 WAKAMATSU 28-JUL ABOUT 8 HOURS BETWEEN 00UTC TO 08UTC
RTH TOKYO=