- UK Met Office has terminated transmission of their TAC SYNOP on GTS on Nov 3 2014. As announced in METNO C Sep 9 2014
- Netherland has terminated transmission of their TAC SYNOP on GTS on Nov 3 2014. As announced in METNO C Oct 7 2014
- Ireland announced their TAC SYNOP terminated on Nov 4 2014. Source: METNO C Sep 30 2014 ftp://ftp.wmo.int/wmo-ddbs/OperationalInfo/VolumeC1/From_WMO/METNO/2014/MC4014.txt
- New Zealand announced their TAC SYNOP terminates on December 15 2014 in METNO C November 11 ftp://ftp.wmo.int/wmo-ddbs/OperationalInfo/VolumeC1/From_WMO/METNO/2014/MC4614.txt ; actual messages seem to stop on December 18. They were restarted about two days later after requests and we understand that they will stop on 19 May 2015.
- Portugal announced that its TAC SYNOP reports will cease on 22 April 2015 - now postponed to 24 June. (Indirect notification received at ECMWF 2 March 2015, update 13 March.)
- Spain announced that its TAC SYNOP reports (including Canary Islands) will cease on 29 June 2015. (Notification received at ECMWF April 2015.)
- Meteo France info on the transition from TAC2BUFR in their data assimilation systems (no short term plans for stopping TAC transmission) here
Figure: state of TAC SYNOP termination. Orange: announced, purple: actually terminated.