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    • Korina
      Korina Administrator @TazMike last edited by

      @tazmike Hello, as mentioned above, Windy visualizes data based on local and global weather models. Fronts are drawn by meteorologists and are not included in any model dataset.

      Korina

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        anuraga Arctic Explorer @idefix37 last edited by

        @idefix37 temperatures. temperature patterns. jet stream. jet stream follow ups / outs / stuff whatever turns up. what I mean is they have those lines with contour numbers on them of Goddamnit and if it's below a certain number it snows especially on high ground. This indicates some type of warm front may have suddenly turned up and caused the frozen rain to snow. for eg. so that's it - weather patterns show where the fronts might be and where they are colliding and scrapping/fighting with each other, so stuff like that. That was it - clouds. Check out the cloud cover because they are sometimes at the front of the fronts as it were and tailing off at the tails. Dunno for sure.

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          bhayes057 | Premium last edited by

          Weather fronts seem to be sorely missing for a site with so much relevant weatherand it is a paid site at that and quite expensice to boot Fronts are essential in weather. since windy has nearly every concievable thing included how can they miss that? Just purchase it and include it from aviation weather NWS

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          • BuckarooMichael
            BuckarooMichael @idefix37 | Premium last edited by

            @idefix37
            Well surely you have meteorologists on staff, draw some fronts! shouldn't have to say it, but, duh... :)
            I've yet to see a dynamically animated weather front map. And I'm sure a one can extrapolate the boundary, and you could be the first to have real-time fronts. That would be cool!
            Yes no model is going to show fronts, because they're kind of opinions. But regardless, a certain amount of Ingenuity can give us what we want, from the best weather app in the entire universe.

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            • idefix37
              idefix37 Sailor Moderator @BuckarooMichael last edited by idefix37

              @buckaroomichael
              Windy have no meteorologist in their staff. And as you imagine it, that would be a hard job to draw fronts 4 times a day, on the overall globe, with a hourly time stamp to get the animation you want, for, let say, the next 5 days. Today it’s just a dream.

              The Royal Institute of Meteorology in Belgium do it but only for Western Europe
              https://www.meteo.be/en/weather/forecasts/weather-charts

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              • Yves70
                Yves70 Meteorologist @BuckarooMichael | Premium last edited by

                @buckaroomichael
                In this post, above, I give some ideas to visualize fronts with Windy. You can start by doing it, combine with what @idefix37 suggested you to do

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                  CSwarm34 @Yves70 last edited by

                  @yves70. Is there any reason why a computer can not draw fronts? It is very repetitive so a Computer algorithm should be able to do it.

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                  • Yves70
                    Yves70 Meteorologist @CSwarm34 | Premium last edited by

                    @cswarm34
                    Today, the role of meteorologists is still crucial to draw fronts. We need their expertise to do it even if AI and computer can propose something like here : https://www.nwcsaf.org/asii1
                    But the products are not yet very accurate

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                    • Yves70
                      Yves70 Meteorologist @CSwarm34 | Premium last edited by

                      @cswarm34
                      To complete my previous post, you can understand that if the institutes making weather models as ECMWF cannot propose something powerful to draw fronts, Windy cannot do it as well !

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                        ldillingham @Yves70 last edited by

                        @yves70 Thank you for the suggestion!

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