Finally resolved NOMADS temp ban issue, added window to alert user that GFS soundings will take a few seconds.

Author: a-urq

bin/com/ameliaWx/soundingViewer/unixTool/RadiosondeWrapper.class

@@ -112,8 +112,16 @@ private static void doGuiCurrHist(int currHistOption) {
 			if (site.getFourLetterCode().length() > 0) {
 				RadiosondeWrapper.displayCurrentSounding(site);
 			} else {
+				JFrame init = new JFrame("Getting GFS data, this may take a few seconds...");
+				init.setSize(500, 0);
+				init.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
+				init.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.DISPOSE_ON_CLOSE);
+				init.setVisible(true);
+				
 				Sounding gfs = ModelDerived.getGfsSounding(site.getLatitude(), site.getLongitude());
 
+				init.dispose();
+				
 				new SoundingFrame(site.locationString() + " GFS-Derived", gfs, DateTime.now(DateTimeZone.UTC), 33,
 						-96.5);
 

bin/com/ameliaWx/soundingViewer/unixTool/nwp/ModelDerived.class

@@ -45,13 +45,21 @@ public static Sounding getGfsSounding(double lat, double lon) {
 		System.out.println("after aligning: " + now);
 
 		Sounding gfsSounding = null;
-		while(true) {
+		for(int i = 0; i < 3; i++) {
 			try {
 				gfsSounding = getGfsSounding(lat, lon, now, 0);
 				break;
 			} catch (IOException e) {
 				System.err.println("GFS not found for " + now + ", rolling back 6 hours");
 				now = now.minusHours(6);
+				
+				try {
+					Thread.sleep(3000);
+				} catch (InterruptedException e1) {
+					// TODO Auto-generated catch block
+					e1.printStackTrace();
+				}
+				
 				continue;
 			}
 		}