The National Weather Service is apparently having some minor Y2K glitches:

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 913 PM EST FRI DEC 31 1999

VERY FEW Y2K BUGS EVIDENT AT 00Z. OTHER THAN BUFKIT DISPLAYS...THE MOST NOTICEABLE WAS THAT GARP HAS COME UP WITH A NEW YEAR...MOVING FROM 1999 TO 19100. IT TOOK A WHILE TO REALIZE THAT THE NEWER FILES WERE AT THE TOP OF THE LIST.

-- C. R. McIlroy (cmcilroy@flash.net), December 31, 1999

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From:http://tgsv5.nws.noaa.gov/er/buf/bufkit/bufkit.html UPDATE.....12/30/1999......Y2K Bug Found From NCEP: Happy Holidays!! Now for the Y2K problem of the day. People are noticing that the old version of GEMPAK on the SOO/SACs is not completely Y2K compliant in that the time sort puts 000101/0000 ahead of everything else. So, the .sfc file generated by sflist for BUFKIT has the Y2K times ahead of the 1999 times. The problem will go away once the forecasts are entirely in 2000. It's too late to put out a fix for this, folks will just have to deal with it until the problem self corrects in the new year.

--end forward from NWS page---- Doyle Dacus

-- Doyle Dacus (doydacus@feist.com), December 31, 1999.