diff --git a/satpy/readers/vaisala_gld360.py b/satpy/readers/vaisala_gld360.py
index b0bde01573..1814a7caba 100644
--- a/satpy/readers/vaisala_gld360.py
+++ b/satpy/readers/vaisala_gld360.py
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ def __init__(self, filename, filename_info, filetype_info):
         # Combine 'date' and 'time' into a datetime object
         parse_dates = {"time": ["gld360_date", "gld360_time"]}
 
-        self.data = pd.read_csv(filename, delim_whitespace=True, header=None,
+        self.data = pd.read_csv(filename, sep="\\s+", header=None,
                                 names=names, dtype=dtypes, parse_dates=parse_dates)
 
     @property