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    • J
      JoeBFLL | Premium
      last edited by

      Why are you consistently 3 to 8 hours behind NHC updates on the Hurricane tracker? For example is 23:05 edt and you just updated the hurricane tracker for Fiona to 20:00 EDT. WHY are you so far behind the NHC?

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      • Filip_KF
        Filip_K Developers
        last edited by

        Right now, last update for Fiona is at 6AM UTC:
        Screenshot_20220919_093948.png
        NHC (https://www.nhc.noaa.gov) gives the same information (see upper right corner for update time):
        Screenshot_20220919_094051.png

        Where do you see the delay?

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        • Filip_KF
          Filip_K Developers
          last edited by

          I probably found where the delay appears. Last update from NOAA (https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/gis-at.xml) is for 6AM (UTC) but was published 3 hours later at 9AM (UTC):
          Screenshot_20220919_094935.png

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          • J
            JoeBFLL @Filip_K | Premium
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            @Filip_K
            I have to respectfully disagree with you. The NHC actually updates their public Advisories every three hours during an active storm. You can go to the archive section of the NHC web site for Fiona to see all of the updates. I have attached the archives for Fiona.

            The site is great but it can be even better if you update the tracker with new position and intensity info everytime the NHC puts out an update.

            I look forward to your response

            340f9947-4225-4956-8ff7-84dfb6018afa-image.png

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            • Filip_KF
              Filip_K Developers
              last edited by

              I see. The *_best_track.kmz (which is our primary source for hurricane tracks) is unfortunately updated quite late. As you mention, around 3h late. I'll look into this to make sure we get as up-to-date data as possible. Thank you for noticing this

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              • Filip_KF
                Filip_K Developers @JoeBFLL
                last edited by

                @JoeBFLL Latest hurricane position, wind speed and pressure is now obtained from NOAA advisory so it should be as up-to-date as possible.

                Thank you again for pointing this out to me

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                • J
                  JoeBFLL @Filip_K | Premium
                  last edited by

                  @Filip_K
                  is there an issue update the Fiona Hurricane tracker. You are now back to being HOURS behind the NHC. Over the past two days the site weas great up dating as the Advisories were posted by the NHC What happened?

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                  • Filip_KF
                    Filip_K Developers @JoeBFLL
                    last edited by

                    @JoeBFLL there was problem with parsing non-standard timestamp in the advisory. Bug has been fixed, monitoring adjusted and future updates should work fine from now on. Thank you for your report

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