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By pink leader - 8/13/2010 4:16:03 PM

Bit concerned re TAFs. See attached. The SD info even refers to some TAFs for yesterday. But time of datafeed is right. Also only shows 5 entries and I think full entry is 7.

Looked at other stations too & there were sig diffs.

P3 gives Metoffice raw data for EGNM. Seems same as Aeroweather widget.

Any idea of reason for discrepancy?

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LEEDS BRADFORD  EGNM 131104Z 1312/1412 36012KT 9999 SCT016 TEMPO 1312/1317 7000 SHRA PROB40 TEMPO 1312/1316 01015G25KT 4000 +TSRA BKN014CB BECMG 1317/1320 7000 RA BKN012 PROB30 TEMPO 1400/1406 BKN006 BECMG 1403/1406 9999 NSW SCT015 PROB40 TEMPO 1408/1412 7000 SHR
LEEDS BRADFORD  EGNM 131104Z 1312/1412 36012KT 9999 SCT016 TEMPO 1312/1317 7000 SHRA PROB40 TEMPO 1312/1316 01015G25KT 4000 +TSRA BKN014CB BECMG 1317/1320 7000 RA BKN012 PROB30 TEMPO 1400/1406 BKN006 BECMG 1403/1406 9999 NSW SCT015 PROB40 TEMPO 1408/1412 7000 SHR
LEEDS BRADFORD  EGNM 131104Z 1312/1412 36012KT 9999 SCT016 TEMPO 1312/1317 7000 SHRA PROB40 TEMPO 1312/1316 01015G25KT 4000 +TSRA BKN014CB BECMG 1317/1320 7000 RA BKN012 PROB30 TEMPO 1400/1406 BKN006 BECMG 1403/1406 9999 NSW SCT015 PROB40 TEMPO 1408/1412 7000 SHR
LEEDS BRADFORD  EGNM 131104Z 1312/1412 36012KT 9999 SCT016 TEMPO 1312/1317 7000 SHRA PROB40 TEMPO 1312/1316 01015G25KT 4000 +TSRA BKN014CB BECMG 1317/1320 7000 RA BKN012 PROB30 TEMPO 1400/1406 BKN006 BECMG 1403/1406 9999 NSW SCT015 PROB40 TEMPO 1408/1412 7000 SHR
By Tim Dawson - 8/14/2010 4:23:40 PM

My suspicion is that this was a duff TAF, updated by whatever agency published it shortly after publishing. SkyDemon probably had one version, another service had another.

Doing a post-mortem on this won't achieve much but if you ever see anything like this again, please take a screenshot of SkyDemon while the mouse pointer is hovered over the top row of the TAF detail in SkyDemon, so the tooltip is displaying the raw TAF data, and send us the complete screenshot. We'll then be able to ascertain whether SkyDemon interpreted something in the bulletin incorrectly.

In the documentation we encourage pilots to always check the raw TAF, in the manner suggested above, because there are TAF elements that SkyDemon cannot and does not parse such as remarks.