On Sun, 4 Apr 2010, Russ Dengel wrote:
At about 7:00PM CST I noticed an outage of METARS over most of the CONUS. Is 
anyone else seeing the same thing or is just a local problem?
I'm seeing it as well at NIU; NWS hourly weather roundups are empty. It's 
nationwide.
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