Paragliders

Currently visible on https://www.windy.com/-Weather-radar-radar?radar,46.855,15.539,5

Here is a screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/EOkLUgi.png

Looks like an atomic bomb struck

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@korina you are absolutely right - it works much better in Safari 14.1.1. It must be a problem with my version of Chrome. Sorry that I didn't test earlier.

Thanks

@korina Nice !

One thing: 3D mode is unusable for me with particule animations - it is much too slow / janky.

I have a ~3y old mack book pro & Chrome 91 & wind animation set to "normal".

It's ok with particule animations off.

Would it possible to auto-disable particule animation when the FPS drops below a reasonable value ?

This layer is extremely over-optimistic. It predicts heights for 1000 m or more higher than they are predicted by other methods (and then they really are). Take a look at the screenshot: The Thermals layer predicts 3200 m (which is extremely rare in Czechia) whereas it will actually be around 1890 m (as predicted by another method).

The method used by my plugin has its “proof” in the diagram:

I have no idea how the number coming from the Thermals layer is computed but it's most certainly wrong.

@ivo You can count on me.

@rittels awesome work !

@wild2fly do longer flights ?

Would it be possible to add frontal displays such as cold, warm, stationary, occluded?

@korina Yes, this seems to have been a glitch. The widget displays now.

Sadly, I have to report that the problem which this thread is about has not been resolved. Version 29.2.4 of Windy still causes said delay with the KISS launcher.

I also tried the standard "Quickstep" launcher. The problem does not occur there. Then again, the standard launcher does not show the keyboard on the home screen and might have an entirely different infrastructure. My suspicion is simply that Windy does not re-draw effectively, which could be remedied by adding a cache.

I would appreciate if your dev team could look into this. KISS is one of the most popular launchers. Windy is not Open-Source, so it doesn't seem to make sense that I ask the KISS developers for help. Thanks.