Hot Air Balloon Pilots

Brasileiro de Balonismo 2021

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• assume you have an Internet-connected gadget for gliding/parachuting/ballooning (it might be just a Vario using your phone as a hotspot)
• turn gadget on - gadget eventually gets a GPS fix and has location
• the gadget would call an HTTP-based API with location and retrieve a vertical wind profile nowcast (from some model X where X != ECMWF) in return, say as a JSON object, for further use on the device

would you in theory be willing to entertain such a service directly, or suggest using the Windy API and some intermediate server?

IOW: how do you see a non-phone/tablet/desktop usage scenario for Windy services? @ivo @marekd

• Michael

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28486389

coverage compared:

Deutscher Wetterdienst pc_met, €79,50.-/yr, no history/download

Windy Radiosonde, free, with history+download:

Germany: 14 vs 10 stations
British Isles: 8 vs 2
Austria: 3 of 4 not present
Spain: 6 versus 3
Slovakia: 1 vs 0
Hungary: 2 vs 1
Croatia: 2 vs 1
Italy: DWD - 2 out of 4 have "technical issues"

Hello to all. This plugin is very useful for my work. I am the head of the air defense against hail and I need data for daily predictions .
The development of the program is an important acquisition for all of us who are engaged in activities that depend on good weather forecasts, and Windy is, in my opinion, a more complex meteo site that is accessible to the public. Thanks again to the groups that build and develop the products.
It would be great for my activity if we could integrate https://www.flightradar24.com/ as a layer in the program.

With regards Darko Kralj

interesting method:

https://nagix.github.io/mapbox-gl-rain-layer/#6.45/62.074/20.167/28/72

with my hobby - hot air ballooning - it's the other way around as for the *glider folk:

mornings: we do not wait with flying until the thermals set in, we better land when they do

evenings: good to know when the thermals subside - between then and darkness we can go for a flight and sometimes it becomes too short

super useful - as is the regional indication of thermal activity

thanks @filip_k !

reported as fixed by users

back to normal

certain corporate firewalls like to strip any accept-encoding headers, killing the advantage of precompressed assets like brotli or gzip.

working on a fix

We're tracking a webserver issue with a certain german corporate environment - obviously their firewall mangles headers leading to a 404 on some data files

service will be shaky for an hour or two until the issue is nailed

• Michael