Windy.com introduces soaring forecast
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Soaring forecast, distance and planning addition. VFR or maybe new additional view with clouds (grey) and thermal strength (yelow and green on picture) . This could be really usefull :-)
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Dear Friends
I've been a Glider pilot since the '90s.,Also sailing. I'm a Premium subscriber. I was very happy with more of this tool in Windy. I Live in Lami where I can go sailing and also have the ARGS in Belem Novo, from where to take off for the flight to sail My city is Porto Alegre i Rio Grande do Sul. Brasil. -
Awesome addition to WINDY. I have used it for glider flights. So easy to access helpful information. The forecasts have been spot on.
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This is an excellent addition to an otherwise superb weather site. Keep up the wonderful work!
Greig Glover
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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
Where are you located? During the night there are no thermals. -
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/
