diff --git a/bin/com/ameliaWx/soundingViewer/unixTool/RadiosondeWrapper.class b/bin/com/ameliaWx/soundingViewer/unixTool/RadiosondeWrapper.class
index 1beb967..b19b8c7 100644
Binary files a/bin/com/ameliaWx/soundingViewer/unixTool/RadiosondeWrapper.class and b/bin/com/ameliaWx/soundingViewer/unixTool/RadiosondeWrapper.class differ
diff --git a/bin/com/ameliaWx/soundingViewer/unixTool/nwp/ModelDerived.class b/bin/com/ameliaWx/soundingViewer/unixTool/nwp/ModelDerived.class
index 9e09b38..53adbb9 100644
Binary files a/bin/com/ameliaWx/soundingViewer/unixTool/nwp/ModelDerived.class and b/bin/com/ameliaWx/soundingViewer/unixTool/nwp/ModelDerived.class differ
diff --git a/src/com/ameliaWx/soundingViewer/unixTool/RadiosondeWrapper.java b/src/com/ameliaWx/soundingViewer/unixTool/RadiosondeWrapper.java
index 01abbf5..0990d13 100644
--- a/src/com/ameliaWx/soundingViewer/unixTool/RadiosondeWrapper.java
+++ b/src/com/ameliaWx/soundingViewer/unixTool/RadiosondeWrapper.java
@@ -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);
 				
diff --git a/src/com/ameliaWx/soundingViewer/unixTool/nwp/ModelDerived.java b/src/com/ameliaWx/soundingViewer/unixTool/nwp/ModelDerived.java
index 088b805..1670e98 100644
--- a/src/com/ameliaWx/soundingViewer/unixTool/nwp/ModelDerived.java
+++ b/src/com/ameliaWx/soundingViewer/unixTool/nwp/ModelDerived.java
@@ -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;
 			}
 		}