windy-plugin-radiosonde

stitch

@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, . . . .

igor 320

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

rittels

@igor-320 Should work now. Thanks

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

mhaberler

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 ;)

stitch

@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)

stitch

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

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

Aadesh Garg

Wow its good

mhaberler

service is currently degraded, investigating

mhaberler

Service is back to normal

several station locations have been fixed

mhaberler

to explain the little hiccup yesterday:

the radiosonde backend is essentially a database which maps a station ID to a series of radiosonde ascents tagged by time
the station ID is assumed to be globally unique, assigned be the WMO, and hence can be used as primary key.

Or so goes the theory.
In practice, all sorts of junk data comes in, like this beauty

search for 'station_id' and well... its just blanks. And there went the primary key.

The code has been fixed to skip such stations, so we have to live without Tunis/Carthage for now until they fix things there.

Another problem creeping up from time to time is: there is no single, well curated source of WMO station information; there are station lists kept by different organisations in varying degree of accuracy and state of rotting. And sometimes those entries are plain wrong - for instance, wrong coordinates.

this manifests itself by a circle on the map at location X, and when you click it, the trajectory shows up elsewhere on the map.

If you find such a station, please file an issue or pull request against this file.

thanks

MIchael