Paragliders

There's a one hour shift between the wind forecast at the bottom of the page and the wind markers on the map. This is an example:

Note that the time selected is 10:00 which e.g. ICON forecasts as 2 G:5 from south yet the marker says 3 G:8 from south-west which is the forecast for 11:00.

I can consistently reproduce this both on desktop and on mobile.

Seems like you asked me to comment ;)

@Yves70 plugins must adhere to an agreement with windy. It states that data should only be used by the plug-in running in windy and should not get exported.

GFS data are public/free so can download those data on different sites. That might answer your question.

@vicb said in Sounding Plugin - for paraglider pilots:

visit https://www.windy.com/plugins/windy-plugin-sounding

The fastest way to load the plugin is to visit https://www.windy.com/plugins/windy-plugin-sounding then you click on load an done.

It also works on mobile if you use a browser - unfortunately it doesn't work with the mobile app for security reason.

Note that because almost nobody knows how to load plugins in a mobile browser the plugin is not well suited for mobile yet but that's something I plan to work on over the coming month.

Today is the 51st Anniversary of the Hurricane Camille landfall in Mississippi on August 17, 1969.

Hurricane Camille made landfall late in the evening near Waveland, Mississippi. Combination of wind, surge, and rainfall resulted in 256 deaths (143 along the Gulf Coast and 113 in the Virginia floods).

Quick Facts

• Hurricane Camille made landfall, along the Mississippi Gulf Coast near Waveland late in the evening on August 17
• Camille is one of only four Category 5 hurricanes ever to make landfall in the continental United States (Atlantic Basin)
• Camille ranks as the 2nd most intense hurricane to strike the continental US, and resulted in 256 deaths
• The actual maximum sustained winds of the hurricane are not known as Hurricane Camille destroyed all the wind-recording instruments in the landfall area
• Re-analysis data found landfall intensity and peak winds of 150 knots (roughly 175 mph) along the coast, with 900 mb pressure
• A devastating storm tide of 24.6 feet occurred west of our area in Pass Christian, Mississippi.

Hurricane Camille path, timeline of the damage, in-depth description of the event, and also short fact-check of the often-publicized “hurricane party” story can be found in my Hurricane Camille article at Extreme Weather Club website.

Happy that you like it @grantonthefly

I have added paragliding sites on paraglidingearth.com, how long does it usually take before it shows on windy?

@marekd said in Did anything change recently with left hand side handling ?:

in a mobile application you can access almost any user data, even list of installed apps etc...

Could you really do that from Javascript ?

I do understand your point of not allowing auto-loading and I think it is reasonable. I am only asking that question out of curiosity as I never thought JS would allow that.

It would be really great to find a way to sandbox the plugins as asking user for confirmation is only a way to push to responsibility to the user but does not solve this problem otherwise. Have you already thought about or explore some solutions ?

I need to think more about it but would running the plugin in an iframe be a solution ? It could use messages to communicate with windy and then only have whatever public subset of the API exposed.

Thanks @rittels.

I saw a few changes recently and no worries for the small glitch I reported. The only way to not make mistakes is when you do nothing :)

Do you have plans to auto-load plugins (without confirmation) ?
Do you have plans to make plugin available from the mobile app / mobile browser (without having to type the direct URL) ?

Thanks for all the updates.