<div dir="auto">Hi Anguel,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The NOMADS site has been pretty unstable lately.  Let me know if the problem persists though and I’ll have a closer look.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Danny</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 03:28 <<a href="mailto:aakremena@aol.com">aakremena@aol.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)">
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<div style="font-family:arial"><font size="2" style="font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Just another error produced by GribGrab:</font></div>

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<div style="font-family:arial"><font size="2" style="font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Error in file(con, "r"): cannot open the connection to '<a style="font-family:arial">http://nomads.ncep.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/filter_gfs_0p25_1hr.pl?dir=%2Fgfs.202102211</a></font><br>
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<div style="font-family:arial"><font size="2" style="font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Thanks again.</font></div>

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<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica;font-size:10pt;color:black">-----Original Message-----<br>
From: <a style="font-family:arial,helvetica">aakremena@aol.com</a><br>
To: <a style="font-family:arial,helvetica">Rnomads-user@lists.r-forge.r-project.org</a> <<a style="font-family:arial,helvetica">Rnomads-user@lists.r-forge.r-project.org</a>><br>
Sent: Tue, Feb 2, 2021 11:08 am<br>
Subject: rNOMADS::GribGrab function seems to be failing<br>
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<div style="font-family:arial"><font size="2" style="font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Hi Danny and all rNOMADS users,</font></div>



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<div style="font-family:arial"><font size="2" style="font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0)">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 style="font-family:arial"><font size="2" style="font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0)">To my understanding, this is due to the rNOMADS::GribGrab function failing with an error like</font></div>



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<pre id="m_-131716949245581448yiv0979150729rstudio_console_output" style="font-family:"Ubuntu Mono";outline:none;border:none;margin:0px;line-height:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;font-size:10.4pt!important;white-space:pre-wrap!important;background-color:rgb(44,40,40);color:rgb(234,234,234)"><span style="font-family:"Ubuntu Mono""><span style="outline:none;border:none;margin:0px;font-family:"Ubuntu Mono";white-space:pre-wrap!important"><simpleError in download.file(grb.url, paste(local.dir, <a style="font-family:"Ubuntu Mono"">file.name</a>, sep = "/"),     mode = "wb", quiet = !verbose): cannot open URL '<a style="font-family:"Ubuntu Mono"">https://nomads.ncep.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/filter_gfs_0p25_1hr.pl?file=gfs.t12z.pgrb2.0p25.f018&lev_2_m_above_ground=on&lev_entire_atmosphere_%5C%28considered_as_a_single_layer%5C%29=on&lev_entire_atmosphere=on&lev_surface=on&lev_surface=on&lev_10_m_above_ground=on&lev_10_m_above_ground=on&lev_2_m_above_ground=on&lev_2_m_above_ground=on&lev_surface=on&lev_surface=on&lev_surface=on&lev_surface=on&lev_surface=on&lev_surface=on&lev_surface=on&lev_surface=on&var_SPFH=on&var_PWAT=on&var_TCDC=on&var_APCP=on&var_PRES=on&var_UGRD=on&var_VGRD=on&var_TMP=on&var_DPT=on&var_SHTFL=on&var_WEASD=on&var_DLWRF=on&var_ULWRF=on&var_DSWRF=on&var_USWRF=on&var_LHTFL=on&var_GFLUX=on&subregion=&leftlon=1081&rightlon=1083&toplat=521&bottomlat=519&dir=%2Fgfs.20210202%2F12</a>'></span></span></pre></div>



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<div style="font-family:arial"><font size="2" style="font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0)">When I try to download the .grb files manually from their URLs, I succeed in so doing.</font></div>



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<div style="font-family:arial"><font size="2" style="font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Has anybody else had similar experience?  Is there anything I might be missing?</font></div>



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<div style="font-family:arial"><font size="2" style="font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Thank you all in advance.</font></div>



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