Combine rainfall and temperature on one map?
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About fronts and humans, see e.g. this article; it mainly explains why forecasters' brain is still necessary, conjointly to forecast models, to draw fronts...
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@vsinceac Thanks again. I totally agree. I think my mentioning "Fronts" is a distraction here. I would be very happy with simply showing rain if there is any, otherwise temperature. Weather boundaries will show up naturally with different temperatures either side of any rain bands.
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@Dcampbell305
You cannot expect to see front boundaries with surface temperatures. The temperature difference (more exactly the potential temperature difference) between cold and warm air masses is generally considered at 850hPa to draw fronts. The surface temperature (2m) is « levelled » by the temperature of ground or sea. -
@idefix37 Thanks for the input. I realise my use of the word "Front" is a distraction. Simply showing rain and temperature on the map would give a realistic "Feel" to the weather and be useful to most people. It would also show weather changes even if not "Fronts". Isobar and wind direction (already provided) complete the picture.
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@Dcampbell305
I agree that superimpose 2 layers would be a nice feature, but it would need to control transparency of each of them, except if rain hides the temperature layer as you propose. -
Leaflet framework has transparency controls for each data overlay plotted on canvas, it just had to be implemented...
As already said, combining any data overlays on same map could always be useful, for different analysis; the selections would by only under the user's responsibility, thus up to him to select pertinent layers to combine... -
@Dcampbell305
When in rain, thunder layer, you can chose "more layers" and display temperature isolines.
Also temperature at many cities are shown.
So, you can have "rainfall and temperature on one map!
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@idefix37 Thanks for this, and it is true that you have both rain and temperature. AND it's available now! :-) What I had assumed is that the existing isobar (pressure) view would still be available. If one uses the isocline for temperature, one loses the classic and familiar "Pressure" chart view. My suggestion comes from more of a layman's "What's the weather doing?" point of view. Arguably the most important items to a layman are "Is is going to rain today?" followed by "How sunny / warm will it be?" and then "How windy?" If we added a cloud cover layer based on greyscale and use the existing arrows animation for wind, then my suggestion provides all that in a familiar "Weather forecast" view
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@Dcampbell305
Your reply was probably to @Gkikas-LGPZ ? :-) -
@idefix37 Indeed so! Apologies to both!
