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      ptizef | Premium last edited by ptizef

      Very good app, but why not an option to show wind on the map with wind barbs instead of particles? Wind barbs is the standard for mariner weather forecast.
      JP

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        Korina Administrator @ptizef last edited by

        @ptizef Hello, wind barbs are visible in the detailed forecast when you open the picker.

        Korina

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          idefix37 Sailor Moderator @ptizef last edited by idefix37

          @ptizef said in Wind on map:

          why not an option to show wind on the map with wind barbs instead of particles

          This option has not been the choice of Windy developers. Wind barbs are a graphical way to show both the direction and speed of wind. They were specially useful when weather maps were black printed maps, but windbarbs are still used nowadays even with numerical maps.
          Wind barbs show the wind direction as wind particles do in Windy.
          Concerning the wind speed, wind barbs give a 5kt speed span and are usually displayed at grid points of the weather model, for example with a 22km distance for GFS, 9km for the ECMWF model…
          With interpolated speed, Windy brings more speed details as displayed by the weather picker. Interpolating wind speed with barbs is possible but surely not easy.
          We must admit that the colour scale of wind speed is not very precise. This is reason why I have customised on my side the speed scale and calibrated it in Beaufort units.
          https://community.windy.com/topic/7233/wind-colors-for-sailors-and-for-everyone?_=1590219576787
          At a glance I know the direction and the wind force.

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            ptizef @idefix37 | Premium last edited by

            @idefix37 Thanks for your answers and suggestion. Anyway I still feel a little "orphan" without wind barbs as a sailor...
            But Windy stay a very good tool
            Regars
            JP joubert

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              ptizef @ptizef | Premium last edited by

              @ptizef I would like to add that it would be very useful to add both wind AND wind gust to the picker
              Thanks JPJ

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                Korina Administrator @ptizef last edited by

                @ptizef Thank you for suggestion.

                Korina

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