Migration to BUFR

According to the plan (from 2010) for the migration from traditional alphanumeric codes (TAC) to BUFR (see www.wmo.int/pages/prog/www/WMOCodes/MigrationTDCF.html), the parallel distribution of SYNOP and BUOY as TAC and BUFR will stop in November. metaf2xml cannot decode BUFR, so it cannot be used to process SYNOP and BUOY messages encoded as BUFR. If you depend on having up-to-date SYNOP and BUOY information after the migration is completed please check alternative software (e.g. on the web site above).