Hot Air Balloon Pilots

I thought you might like this:

a local flight in Styria last month:
https://cesium.com/cesiumjs/cesium-viewer/?source=https://static.mah.priv.at/cors/stiwoll-muggauberg.czml

two balloons crossing the Alps late last year:
https://cesium.com/cesiumjs/cesium-viewer/?source=https://static.mah.priv.at/cors/filzmoos-treviso-oesoe-oesfy.czml

the trajectory lines are generated from the GPX files the windy-traj plugin offers as download, the flight tracks are actual GPS data

motivational screenshot of the latter flight:

and here is a 360° video of that flight:

note the whole animation is encapsulated in a single CZML file and just uses the public CesiumViewer service from the Cesium project

• Michael

ps: for the curious: this documents arguments to the CesiumViewer

Re: anybody working on a trajectory plugin?

seems the author lost interest and vanished the git repo: https://github.com/aibfamilyflight/windy-sigmet

@mhaberler forgot: reload windy.com after changing the time

@idefix37 @Korina for me too -> BUT it's a day later now

try this to reproduce:

• force your platform's time back to Oct 25, past 3am (just set my mac to Oct 25, 21:48)
• this is AFTER the winter time change, because that happened October 25, 3:00 am so the time delta should be 1 hour
• peruse the time selector: the time difference remains 2hrs even looking at Nov 1 (!)

note also the time selector remains equidistant 1h - I guess it should display 3am loc twice and switch the difference to UTC on the second 3am mark from 2 to 1hr

looks like a fencepost issue to me

while this doesnt look terribly important I hint to the fact that such time jumps by an hour can be really nasty in VFR aviation

I envy nobody trying to get this right.. I wish they would get rid of this seasonal switching altogether

@idefix37 I guess somebody with access to the code needs to figure out wether it's this rounding issue I already reported or a generic timezone snafu, hard to tell apart

location and current time is 17:23 UTC, 18:23 loc in Hartberg, Austria - 1h difference:

This is what windy.com displays with 'UTC on' setting:

Note 2 hour difference - the switch to winter DST was yesterday

Michael

@Yves70 @Gkikas-LGPZ
Thank you guys for the answers. Yes, I guess it's true, a forecast can be worse than a previous one. It's just annoying that you payed for something and you don't get what you was promised.
The update finally arrived after 11 hours, but I don't see any changes in wind speed and wind direction at all (in 3 different altitude), which is quite strange I think. Looks like premium subscription has not much to offer.

Hello there!

I have a premium subscription, but the ECMWF update is very late. I would like to know why is that? Is it a usual problem? If it is than the premium version has no real value for me. :(

is it just me? I'm getting this error message on all browsers when opening https://community.windy.com/ :

oh, and embeds of course