Based on discussion in this MET Help ticket: https://rt.rap.ucar.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=98329

Describe the Enhancement

Logan (NOAA) would like to process data with ascii2nc that occasionally has no obs data, which is expected. When this is the case, we would like ascii2nc to write out a file with no observations in it. This could be a configurable setting in case other users prefer the tool to skip writing a file if no data is present.

The data is then passed into point2grid. It is unclear how point2grid would react to an empty input file. We should also investigate what is needed to handle this situation in that application as well.

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