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    • idefix37I
      idefix37 Sailor Moderator
      last edited by idefix37

      BTW speaking of wind barbs, a lot of people don't know why we use that word. Early weather maps showed the direction and speed of the wind by arrows with a tip and feather fletching. Weather map in 1888:

      25BB898D-5A5D-45F7-9B24-2740AD727558.jpeg

      Nowadays the barbs are only on one side of the arrow and the tip is missing, replaced by a circle in surface analysis maps. Barbs point towards the low pressure zone as said in the previous posts.

      752D6340-720A-4E5B-8610-21CE9848430C.jpeg

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        stitch Meteorologist @stitch | Premium
        last edited by

        @marekd

        Can you provide a solution to the wind barb/arrow direction within the sounding tool to follow the convention that the barb/arrows point towards the area of lowest pressure?

        For the current Sounding Tool....when the latitude changes to -ve (Sth Hem), the barb/arrows need to be drawn on the opposite side to what is currently being displayed.

        W'ly wind
        in the Nth Hem: point to the left (up - in sounding tool)
        in the Sth Hem: point to the right (down - in sounding tool)

        You can follow the discussion for added comments.

        Thx
        Stitch

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        • KorinaK
          Korina @airmalik
          last edited by

          @airmalik Hi, thank you for the report. We will fix it in the next version.

          Korina

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          • Mark MortimerM
            Mark Mortimer | Premium
            last edited by

            Love the new zoomable sounding. Each time I close it down, I have to re-enable the paragliding spots toggle if I want to look at a new site. Don’t think I had to do this with the previous sounding and I don’t see an advantage to it. Is this a small bug?

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            • KorinaK
              Korina @Mark Mortimer
              last edited by

              @Mark-Mortimer Hello, it is correct since the new sounding is technically a POI overlay, so when you select it, the other overlay gets unselected.

              Korina

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                fcrgb | Premium
                last edited by

                Great job with the new sounding! Really love it. Only on my mobile device (Android) the time bar, were you can adjust day and daytime, disappears now. This makes it quite hard to check the development over the day. I hope you can make the time bar topmost or so :)

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                • KorinaK
                  Korina @fcrgb
                  last edited by

                  @fcrgb Hi, thanks for the feedback. I discussed this with our development team, and we will consider adding the timeline back into the future release.

                  Korina

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                    duducardo | Premium
                    last edited by

                    Bonjour,
                    D'autres paramètres du radio sondage devraient être affichés.
                    Li/cape/cin .........

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                      pepalter | Premium
                      last edited by

                      I like this tool very much.
                      I've realized that today forecast sounding don't offer near radiosounding like before.
                      And another thing that have changed is that when you are in a radiosounding, the option to see historical radiosounding have dissapeared.

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                      • Antoinette JeffersonA
                        Antoinette Jefferson
                        last edited by

                        This makes keeping track of progress during the day challenging. I'm crossing my fingers that the clock will reach the summit.

                        geometry dash

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                          wxgeek @marekd | Premium
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                          @marekd The ability to compare or "swipe-back" to the previous observed or forecast sounding would be great. I currently don't see a way to do this in the current version, correct ?

                          Pete Curran

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                          • Threlfa7T
                            Threlfa7 | Premium
                            last edited by

                            Great tool! I've noticed the lowest data is always the 1000hPa level. Is it possible to show data lower down in the atmosphere please?

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                            • TZT
                              TZ Administrator @Threlfa7
                              last edited by

                              @Threlfa7 No, but there are also ground data and some models have layer 100m above ground level.

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                              • MikeMaxisM
                                MikeMaxis
                                last edited by

                                Seems to pop up whenever and is annoying and may interfere with the map in general

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                                • Peter GehringP
                                  Peter Gehring
                                  last edited by

                                  Wie mache ich das Update?

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                                  • SutyS
                                    Suty Administrator @Peter Gehring
                                    last edited by

                                    @Peter-Gehring What exactly do you mean? I see that you already have Premium account.

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                                    • Brent DixonB
                                      Brent Dixon @jancellor | Premium
                                      last edited by

                                      Bumping this, i would really appreciate this being added, or at least a way to enter the DP and temp that isn't via getting the mouse exactly in the right place.

                                      It's difficult for people with movement issues to get it in the spot.

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                                      • ZeusDogZ
                                        ZeusDog | Premium
                                        last edited by

                                        Screenshot_20231206_084838_Windy.jpg

                                        I've found that the cursor text indication of wind speed sometimes doesn't agree with the wind barbs along the right side axis (as in the example above - "19 mph" while the wind barb indicates 50+ kts). or are the units of the wind barbs something other than the usual knots or the units set under Settings (mph, in the case of the example above).

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                                        • idefix37I
                                          idefix37 Sailor Moderator @ZeusDog
                                          last edited by idefix37

                                          @ZeusDog
                                          Wind barbs units cannot be other than knots.
                                          I think your sounding is displaying wrong wind barbs.
                                          I get 19 mph for less than 20 kt windbarbs in the graphic at 750hPa level for same location.

                                          3E0835ED-34EA-4501-9003-3536E8A926DE.jpeg

                                          You can easily cross check the wind speed at this level on the map with the Altitude slider set at 800 - 700 hPa and the sounding graphic.

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                                          • ZeusDogZ
                                            ZeusDog @idefix37 | Premium
                                            last edited by

                                            @idefix37 I agree with all you said, including that I can cross-check the wind barbs. But why do you suppose the sounding forecast is showing me the wrong wind barbs, and why only sometimes? I will try to see under what circumstances this happens, but haven't noticed a pattern yet.

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