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<div> <font size="2">Hi Danny,<br>
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<div><font size="2">Just another error produced by GribGrab:</font></div>

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<div><font size="2">Error in file(con, "r"): cannot open the connection to 'http://nomads.ncep.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/filter_gfs_0p25_1hr.pl?dir=%2Fgfs.202102211</font><br>
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<div><font size="2">Thanks again.</font></div>

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<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica;font-size:10pt;color:black">-----Original Message-----<br>
From: aakremena@aol.com<br>
To: Rnomads-user@lists.r-forge.r-project.org <Rnomads-user@lists.r-forge.r-project.org><br>
Sent: Tue, Feb 2, 2021 11:08 am<br>
Subject: rNOMADS::GribGrab function seems to be failing<br>
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<div><font size="2">Hi Danny and all rNOMADS users,</font></div>



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<div><font size="2">I've been unable to download data from the NOMADS website for the last several days by using the rNOMADS package.  <br>

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<div><font size="2">To my understanding, this is due to the rNOMADS::GribGrab function failing with an error like</font></div>



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<div><font size="2">When I try to download the .grb files manually from their URLs, I succeed in so doing.</font></div>



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<div><font size="2">Has anybody else had similar experience?  Is there anything I might be missing?</font></div>



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<div><font size="2">Thank you all in advance.</font></div>



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<div><font size="2">Anguel Grigorov<br>

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