New sounding with radiosonde measurements
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Thank you all for your suggestions and reports!
@wwat To keep picker open is a good idea. Typo is fixed :-)
@jancellor That is a little unfortunate behavior. When you open the sounding plugin, it switches selected POI to radiosonde layer (so it shows all measurements on the map). So it changes currently selected POI layer ("forecasted weather" in your case). We will try to figure it out somehow, but I am affraid the only solution would be to not switch to radiosonde layer. To keep zoom when model is selected is quite easy. We will try to do something about it.
@stitch We will consider to use picker instead of map pointer. It is good idea. Switching units is also good idea. We would like to add comparing tool for radiosonde measurement and a forecast, but we have currently no plan to compare multiple models with each other. Anyway, I added it to "possible improvements in the future" list :-)
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Found a bug of sorts.....there is a problem displaying the temperature plot near the surface (base) on the SkewT plot when the surface temp >40C.
I can't drag the SkewT plot any further to the left to allow >40C be displayed on the temp (base) axis.
See example
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@stitch You can use fullscreen on a wide display as a quick workaround. Will be fixed.
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@marekd
Hi, please could tell us how you can use AROME as model for sounding forecast?
Windy uses the 1.3 km version of AROME data. This version provides data at ground level, not in higher levels. So how this version can show a sounding forecast?
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@idefix37 As usual, you discovered an insidious bug :-) Thank you! Of course we do not have Arome meteogram for 1.3km resultion. Showed data are ECMWF :facepalm:
Since Arome has a forecast only for a few days, we fill the rest with ECMWF data. Unfortunately, this behaviour was also reflected in the meteogram and we did not notice it. Shame on us. Thanks a lot! Will be fixed soon. -
@marekd
Don't worry, you have carried a very sophisticated development. It's normal there are some glitches.
It is really a fantastic tool, even if I have not really a need for it, being more interested by weather at sea level :) -
And another issue with resetting. When you click somewhere on the map it resets the position of the map so that the clicked location is in the centre. This is a problem if you click near the edge of the areas of a particular model, because the map recentres on the point, then the model switches to another model because it considers the view to be outside the range of what is applicable for that model.
For example, choose ICON-D2, sounding, then click on Gloucester in the UK. The map scrolls so that Gloucester is in the centre of the non-sounding part of the map, then the model switches to ICON-EU. (I think it is using the centre of the whole screen - including the portion of the map that is hidden by the sounding pop-up - to determine whether the model can be used. So you have two inconsistent definitions of centre.)
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@jancellor Thanks, will be fixed into next version.
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@marekd hi, it seems there's no timeline panning. This way I can't see how the weather evolves, I cannot filter out good and bad moments, minimums and maximums. Please help.
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@szabolcs-gavallér
With new sounding the timeline is still available on desktop in browser version.
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@szabolcs-gavallér Thanks for the suggestion! I think it could be changed to see the timeline even on mobile devices.
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Thank you very much for this new tool! I can imagine the great effort to develop it. It is really very useful. Surely further updates will bring more information!
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Thanks for the good work. Very impressive new graphics. As others have suggested, I'd like to see 2 updates to restore some lost functionality:
- "ft" scale rather than "m" when that is selected in settings
- Ability to scroll timeline in the mobile app.
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@ajbeevers I had the same remark.
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@AlFly Hi, the ft and m is a bug, we will fix this in the next update.
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This is definitely better! I still find the simplicity of the sounding plugin easier, it is also nice on that that you can scroll on your mouse to see the evolution of the day and the zoom being just a button is better for me.
On the better sounding they also have the windspeed graph as well as the barbs and that is helpful for spotting shear layers and changes in the airmass.
An indicator on the graph that clearly shows the top of the boundary layer would be magical and if you could be find a way to indicate thermal strength that'd be even more amazing for paraglider/glider pilots.
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idefix37
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Super, this is what i was looking for a long time!
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I have only just found out about these excellent changes (was on vacation), kudos to the team! I use soundings on a daily basis, and these features make me use Windy even more, rather than using the sluggish weather application on our workstation we have in our workplace.
I find the sounding functionality works best on a desktop-browser environment rather than on iOS/Android. This is because on the web-environment one can scroll through time while checking soundings and this does not seem possible on a mobile device. Adding this possibility on mobile devices would be a huge improvement for those users.
In any case, thanks a lot and keep up the good work!
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@marcelwind
Concerning the non-possibility of scrolling trough the time line on mobile device, it should be fixed as it is said several posts above:
https://community.windy.com/topic/21263/new-sounding-with-radiosonde-measurements/20 -
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One more vote for scrolling through the timeline on mobile.
Also can we have an option for the green dotted line for thermals to be drawn automatically based on the actual surface temperature and surface dew point? This should really be the default. It is rare to want to know what a parcel of air would do if released into the atmosphere with some random temperature and random humidity.
