DIFAX Community,
The NWS has informed Unidata that it will give a six month notice to the discontinuation
of the DIFAX products. That is why the word "eventually" was used. We do not
know when that 6 month warning will be given. Another option we are investigating is
delivering the Wisconsin products via the IDD to aid in the speed and timeliness of the
delivery of these products.
Thank you for your comments,
-Jeff Weber
On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Jeff Weber wrote:
DIFAX community,
The National Weather Service has informed Unidata that the DIFAX service will
be terminated eventually. Alden has encountered some problems with the DIFAX
service via the IDD, that they currently are providing.
Unidata has tracked these issues and coordinated some options that can be
utilized when the DIFAX service ceases to exist or Alden continues with idd
transmission difficulties.
Unidata is generating .gif imagery of these products via Redbook Graphics and can be viewed or downloaded at:
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/staff/chiz/redbook/
The University of Wisconsin is also generating DIFAX type products which are
available for viewing and download in postscript format at:
http://mapmaker.meteor.wisc.edu/difaxmaps/
NOAA also offers DIFAX type products for viewing and download in compressed
(G4) .tiff formats at:
http://weather.noaa.gov/fax/graph.shtml
and
http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/wefax/products.htm
DIFAX will cease operations in the near future, we offer these options as
interim solutions.
