…sion may have bugs, I am committing so I can test on another platform since my Jet "fairshare" is apparently off-the-charts low

…e tarball contains a full path, we need to lstrip the leading "/" before globbing

All tasks now working for simple test case! Next up is to try all WE2E
vx tests

…ctory, we need to create it prior to calling the script

obs for tests MET_verification, MET_verification_only_vx, and
MET_ensemble_verification (modified to pull rather than use staged data)

 - Remove old j-jobs and exscripts
 - Cleanup and update mrms_pull_topofhour.py to be more pythonic
 - Move to obs dir prior to pulling data to avoid potential conflicts
from temporarily extracted files from HPSS
 - Move many comments from config_defaults.yaml to more appropriate
location in new data pulling/staging script; add more details about data
quirks

…verification tests now pass when retrieving from HPSS!

 - Remove usage of "*_vrfy" functions due to issues mentioned in Issue
   861 (ufs-community#861)
 - Remove extra "mkdir" statement where it shouldn't be for MRMS
 - Use correct variable (vhh_noZero) for checking valid hour for NDAS

 - Remove stanzas eliminating the "task_get_obs*" tasks; these should
   now be run every time (if using staged data, they will check that the
   data exists)
 - Modify tasks RRFS_CONUS_25km_ics_FV3GFS_lbcs_RAP_suite_RAP
   (MET_verification) and MET_ensemble_verification_only_vx_time_lag to
   retrieve obs data from HPSS
 - Fix MET_ensemble_verification_only_vx_time_lag test by correcting
   variable NET to NET_default (addresses issue 851)
 - Add new verification task custom_ESGgrid_Eastern_NA_snow_8km that
   will have winter weather verification tasks (for subsequent PR)

 - Don't retrieve obs data from HPSS for
   grid_RRFS_CONUS_25km_ics_FV3GFS_lbcs_RAP_suite_RAP; too many
   platforms use this test
 - Rename custom_ESGgrid_Eastern_NA_snow_8km to
   custom_ESGgrid_Great_Lakes_snow_8km; add to comprehensive and Jet
   coverage test
 - Add MET_ensemble_verification_only_vx to comprehensive for Cheyenne
   and Orion, as well as to coverage suite via Hera/GNU
 - Move MET_verification_only_vx coverage from Hera/GNU to Cheyenne/GNU
 - Add new mysterious "2020_CAD" test to all comprehensive lists, not
   just Orion (what's up with that?), sort alphabetically

…ound

… didn't account for templating behavior

 - Remove stand-alone j-jobs and exscripts for NOHRSC
 - Add NOHRSC_obs stanza to parm/data_locations.yml
 - Update documentation and comments to include NOHRSC obs
 - Add "ASNOW" (accumulated snow) verification to
   custom_ESGgrid_Great_Lakes_snow_8km
 -

…m comprehensive.cheyenne

…E testing purposes, similar to TEST_ALT_EXTRN_MDL_SYSBASEDIR_ICS