Windy.com introduces soaring forecast

[Filip_K]

More information on how to read Thermals is provided under "info" icon

[DiscoverPG]

Just chatting to my paragliding class last week... "Windy doesn't have anything for the thermal index yet besides the CAPE forecast. I'm hoping they expand that capability soon!"
THANK YOU!!!

[glover]

This is an excellent addition to the site. It will prove to be very helpful. Thank you!

Greig Glover
Woodbury, MN, USA

[Pirbakhsh]

All is best

[graverobber90089]

@korina
How often does sheer winds affects Michiganians homes?

[MG]

Epic layer,
would it be possible to add airspace VFR toggle on an off switch maybe switch in and out of the clouds? Im just being picky. this is epic.

[idefix37]

@graverobber90089 said in Windy.com introduces soaring forecast:

@korina
How often does sheer winds affects Michiganians homes?

Windy does not provide historical or statistical data. There are many articles on Internet that you can find about the frequency of wind damages, like for example this one:
https://project.geo.msu.edu/geogmich/tornades.html

[Filip_K]

@mg There is already a way to display airspaces using Airspaces plugin by @rittels (at least in the desktop version).

Go to Menu --> Install Windy plugin and load it.

[julianysouza_ofc]

@filip_k Oi

[opelvivaro]

fantastiskt bra

[xfcstormchaser]

Tiny Cyclone in the atlantic ocean got sucked in big cyclone with name 90L
This cyclone got sucked after 3-2 Days
Wind of 90L, 38kt

[ozone]

@filip_k
That looks pretty good to me.

A request: can you use the same color scheme as the drjack.info or the topmeteo website so that it's possible to compare apples to apples? Also, like the Drjack website, is it possible to break down the max climbable height into smaller increments, with more colors? Drjack.info uses every 1000 feet ( sorry about the english units- it's all we have in the USA).

[whoosh]

@korina Thanks for adding the thermal forecast, Im sure it will be appreciated by all pilots. Is the forecast model similar to the RASP forecasts that we have for soaring or have you used a new model?

[rayssa_brasil]

@discoverpg concordo

[steelek]

Holy molly. Now I'll be able to see in the morning if I need additional pillow under my butt when planning to fly :D

[chrab]

Nice. We will see how it work. Some ideas:

• calculate speed of lifting
• rating soaring condition
• better sounding, like eg. xcmeteo.net.

[Korina]

@whoosh Hello, the calculations are performed by us, but we also use additional data sources.

[Korina]

@chrab Thank you, we will consider it :)

[vicb]

@chrab I just happened to have developped a plugin called "better sounding", see https://www.windy.com/plugins/windy-plugin-sounding

[vicb]

Pretty cool,

@FILIP_K Could you expand on how you compute the Top Of Lift and give details about the algo ?