Barbados Meteorological Services starts BUFR reports for CLIMAT/SYNOP/TEMP

Source: US NWS data management
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/dm-cgi-bin/chgshow.pl?fn=DM06-15.06.txt

CBS letter on migrating upper air reports to BUFR

The president of WMO/CBS (Commission for Basic Systems) has circulated a letter to WMO Members, which is available online
http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/www/WIS/wiswiki/tiki-view_blog_post.php?postId=171

This is a historic event that a formal WMO body statement cares about usable quality of data.  For me it has been clear from the beginning that the worldwide data exchange is meaningful only if the data is usable. But not so many people cared about that historically.