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      wetterheidi | Premium last edited by

      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.

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      • mhaberler
        mhaberler @wetterheidi | Premium last edited by

        coverage compared:

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

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        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"

        Michael

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        • guy_bottlaender
          guy_bottlaender @rittels | Premium last edited by

          @rittels Thanks to you and the whole contributors, it's very usefull and easy tu use!!! and YES we enjoy it!
          Just an issue: when I use AROME, in an available area of course, because there are not any altitude data, your plugin will use ECMWF without any mention on that. Despite AROME or ARPEGE are very accurate we missed until now this data...

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          • rittels
            rittels Code contributor @guy_bottlaender | Premium last edited by

            @guy_bottlaender

            Thank you.

            Yes, geopotential height is not available for Arome, via Windy. I use calculated values, which is not ideal.

            Would you recommend that I leave it out, or use ECMWF?

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              Ken | Premium last edited by

              @rittels said in windy-plugin-radiosonde:

              @mhaberler

              Hello, I'm not sure if this belongs in the Bug reporting topic or on here but ever since about a week or so ago, both the forecast and observed soundings look very compressed vertically compared to what they used to look like, no matter what web browser I use. Has this been intentionally changed recently?

              I've attached a couple of before and after screenshots to illustrate my point:

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              • idefix37
                idefix37 Sailor Moderator @guy_bottlaender last edited by

                @guy_bottlaender
                The reason why altitude parameters are not shown with AROME is because Windy use the 1.3km version of this model. The 2.5km version includes altitude parameters. But difficult to imagine Windy showing both.

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                • rittels
                  rittels Code contributor @Ken | Premium last edited by

                  @ken

                  Thank you. I fixed the flat skewt a few days ago, but another bug crept into extra settings. Will fix later.

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                  • rittels
                    rittels Code contributor @idefix37 | Premium last edited by

                    @idefix37 @guy_bottlaender

                    Thanks, I have removed altitude values from AROME, more honest than using calculated values.

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                    • guy_bottlaender
                      guy_bottlaender @rittels | Premium last edited by

                      @rittels I think that's better to leave it out, sorry for that.... What about downloding ARPEGE data wich are free on data.gouv.fr?

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                      • guy_bottlaender
                        guy_bottlaender @rittels | Premium last edited by

                        @rittels @idefix37 here is probably the answer, using only AROME 2.5 and showing AROME 1.3km only for the surface wind field.

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                          stitch Meteorologist @rittels | Premium last edited by

                          @rittels

                          To the development team that put together this plugin "windy-plugin-radiosonde"....top shelf - great effort!!

                          From a Prof Met's perspective....this is a very useful tool and one I only recently discovered and now use continually....so a BIG thanks!

                          One issue: could you take a look at the numerical wind speed values within the Skew-T diagram when you mouse over a level. It appears the numerical values are displaying speed in metres/sec when there is a knots value displayed. For comparison, the wind barb notation is correct in units of knots.

                          Eg
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                          Wind barb is ~60kts....numerical wind speed is 30.3 m/s (and not kts as displayed). Could you correct the numerical value to "knots"?

                          Otherwise, great work! Highly appreciated.

                          PS: If you could incorporate real-time sonde data (during the balloon flight) from Sondehub into the Skew-T diagram up until the completion of the sonde (with the data then replaced by completed sonde data - as currently displayed), then that would be a GOLD medal in my books.

                          Regards,
                          Stitch

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                            rittels Code contributor @stitch | Premium last edited by

                            @stitch

                            😳 Oops. Thank you for picking that up.

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                            • mhaberler
                              mhaberler @stitch | Premium last edited by

                              @stitch Michael here, author of the radiosonde backend

                              re sondehub realtime data integration: that was always planned and I'm in contact with the sondehub team since over a year towards that end.

                              From an integration perspective it looks reasonably straightforward. However, server side things would not be as easy as the current radiosonde backend which is basically serving static files. Also, data quality is an issue - data from sondehub might not be validity checked as the data from meteo aggregators is.

                              Currently this backend service is running on my hosted server, and its future is undecided as of now.

                              • Michael

                              Michael

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                                stitch Meteorologist @mhaberler | Premium last edited by

                                @mhaberler Hi Michael. I appreciate the challenges that go with developing these products. And, as I have mentioned, this plug-in has been beneficial to my work. Can I include another request? Within the skewT diagram, are you able to plot the wind speed numeral values beside the wind barb? This would conveniently illustrate the wind speed without needing to mouse over each level.
                                Thanks, . . . .

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                                  igor 320 last edited by

                                  The plugin loads, but doesn't show any stations. Is it broken or it's something on my end?

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                                  • rittels
                                    rittels Code contributor @igor 320 | Premium last edited by

                                    @igor-320 Should work now. Thanks

                                    @stitch Go to extra settings -> select wind display , select Numeric

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                                    • mhaberler
                                      mhaberler @stitch | Premium last edited by

                                      Hi @stitch , I'm just the fellow doing the data collection backend

                                      all the frontend polishing is done by the formidable Mister @rittels !

                                      and no, there arent any known existing bugs since @rittels fixes them so quickly, so it's all Heisenbugs ;)

                                      Michael

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                                        stitch Meteorologist @rittels | Premium last edited by

                                        @rittels .......you are a champion!!!

                                        This plugin just went up another few rungs. And I noticed you have plotted the 1000hpa level wind/temp on the skewt when this is not available on the main window viewer....bonus.

                                        Thankyou (big time)

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                                          stitch Meteorologist @mhaberler | Premium last edited by

                                          @mhaberler .....see my comments above to @rittels

                                          A big thankyou for your work putting this plugin together. 👍😁

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                                            Aadesh Garg Chile alerta last edited by

                                            Wow its good

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