windy-plugin-radiosonde

rittels

Good afternoon Windy community

This plugin is a team effort, by @mhaberler and myself. Thank you for @vicb for the use of your code and @johnckealy for the initial inspiration.

Our plugin displays radiosonde (weather balloon) data on Windy. You can then compare it to recent historical forecasts.

Please read the comprehensive description on Michaels blog: https://blog.mah.priv.at/release-announcement-windy-plugin-radiosonde/

We hope you enjoy it!!

PS: It is interesting to use it with the new thermal layer.

vicb

@rittels awesome work !

ivo

M A G N I F I C E N T 👏

rittels

@ivo Thanks!

mhaberler

@ivo appreciated!

Gkikas LGPZ

@rittels Bravo

vsinceac

idefix37

@rittels
Very impressive !

jmh2002

A big thank you once again to @rittels and @mhaberler for the continued great contributions to the Windy Community :)

mhaberler

if you find any issues:

for the plugin please use https://github.com/rittels/windy-plugin-radiosonde/issues
if clearly in the skewt display code, please use https://github.com/rittels/skewt-js

for any backend functional issues and feature suggestions please file an issue at https://github.com/mhaberler/radiosonde-datacollector/issues and I'll look into it.

For operational issues, the DevOps Borat strategy applies:

johnckealy

Wow.... Amazing work guys!

Yves70

@rittels
Excellent work, very useful !!!

rittels

@johnckealy thanks!!

rittels

Few improvement. Added lines for LCL, CCL, TCON, and control of these lines.

@ivo :

The plugin is published on github: https://github.com/rittels/windy-plugin-radiosonde

the skew-t part is here: https://github.com/rittels/skewt-js

mhaberler

We're tracking a webserver issue with a certain german corporate environment - obviously their firewall mangles headers leading to a 404 on some data files

service will be shaky for an hour or two until the issue is nailed

Michael

mhaberler

back to normal

certain corporate firewalls like to strip any accept-encoding headers, killing the advantage of precompressed assets like brotli or gzip.

working on a fix

mhaberler

reported as fixed by users

kenik

Hello to all. This plugin is very useful for my work. I am the head of the air defense against hail and I need data for daily predictions .
The development of the program is an important acquisition for all of us who are engaged in activities that depend on good weather forecasts, and Windy is, in my opinion, a more complex meteo site that is accessible to the public. Thanks again to the groups that build and develop the products.
It would be great for my activity if we could integrate https://www.flightradar24.com/ as a layer in the program.

With regards Darko Kralj

wetterheidi

Best plugin to display radiosoundings.
I use it in my job as a flight weather forecaster as well as for my hobby as a balloon pilot.

mhaberler

coverage compared:

Deutscher Wetterdienst pc_met, €79,50.-/yr, no history/download

Windy Radiosonde, free, with history+download:

Windy Radiosonde coverage - Europe

Germany: 14 vs 10 stations
British Isles: 8 vs 2
Austria: 3 of 4 not present
Spain: 6 versus 3
Slovakia: 1 vs 0
Hungary: 2 vs 1
Croatia: 2 vs 1
Italy: DWD - 2 out of 4 have "technical issues"