Wind barbs

[gian71]

Hi there
I cannot find any option to show surface wind strenght/direction with the "barbs" standard notation.

I found "particles animation" only, that does not fit my need because animation confuses me (I do prefer static representation).

Wind barbs is a super-standard way to represent wind data...so I found odd that is not available...for sure it's me not finding it :)

Someone can help me?

Thanks
Gian Maria

[Korina]

@gian71 Hello, wind barbs can be found in Detailed forecast - https://www.windy.com/50.090/14.420/wind?45.089,14.414,5

[gian71]

@korina hi korina, thanks for your answer.

That link is not wind barbs that have following aspect (it's a standard notation)

and I was referring to use wind barbs in a wind map with a barb per each point of model calculation instead of moving arrows (particles animation) like this

Is this feature available in Windy?

Tks

[idefix37]

@gian71
This feature is not available in Windy. Wind barbs have not been the choice of Windy developers.
This graphical way, to show both the direction and speed of wind, were specially useful when weather maps were printed in black, but much less with digital weather maps.
Wind barbs show the wind direction same as wind particles do in Windy. They don’t do it better.
Concerning the wind speed, wind barbs give a 5kt speed span. The weather picker in Windy is more precise with 1kt step.
What is difficult for me is to visualise the overall wind speed from the colors of the map layer according to the color scale legend. For this reason I have customised on my side the speed scale and calibrated it in Beaufort units, without smoothing.
At a glance I know the direction and the wind force.