Windy.com introduces soaring forecast
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Great idea!
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Useful for a "broadly indicative" view over an area.
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Nice feature, thank you. Very useful information even for pilots planning cross-country flights due to prediction of turbulence. Thank you
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thanks for this new layer.. I hope It will be a great help to our planning
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Hi
I clicked on the thermal icon but nothing changes on the screen , cant see and thermals? I am a premium user -
@shashighedia
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Excellent job, Filip!
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excelente capa un 10
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@korina said in Windy.com introduces soaring forecast:
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This feature is great! What would be awesome too, is the expected thermal strength.
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After analysis during several months and flying areas, I must say that unfortunately the Thermal layer is almost useless in Argentina. Overly optimistic, usually by many hundreds of meters in all 3 models available
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@eduardosg Hi, we value the feedback, the layer is still in BETA version.
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Thanks for bringing this into Windy, yeahhhh!!!
Besides refining the forsecast on cloudbase, adding upward velocity and boundry shear are important parameters gliders look at. Good resource: http://www.drjack.info/ -
Love it, makes our decision whether to drive 90 minutes to our TO site very easy :) Thank You !
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Hi i’m a premium user but every time i open the app and click on Thermals layer it shows that i must subscribe to “premium”, but i am already registered ro premium. Is it a bug?
Btw, thermals layer! Cool!!i
I tried to attch the screenshot but its not possible. -
@avesta-0 Hello, this is correct, it is just a notification in case you are not subscribed yet. But thank you, we will consider removing it.
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well done, thanks
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essential layer. Thanks
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It’s good, but need to be able to select different altitudes. On a SKew T chart you can see where the top of lift is going to be. On your charts we’re just getting one value, but we can’t control what altitude we’re selecting that value for.
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@amsadov
You can show at same time the local Skew-T chart .
Here the Skew-T that you find in Plugins library (only available on the web site, in the mobile app there is another Sounding type):
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This may be a stupid question, but the thermal top is just one value (MSL) , and not influenced by the selected altitude of the map? Not sure I understand the question? Do you mean AGL?
The thermal top calculated depends on the parcel temp. For the Sounding plugin the parcel temp is +3 degrees of surf temp. The thermal map layer appears to use about 2 deg difference. That is why the Sounding plugin shows 2000m and the thermal layer 1000m.
