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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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