Wave Period Maps
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Surfer here as well ;-).
Yes please, swell period layers (for all 3 swells) would be fantastic and really useful.
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Currently, the Windy app does not have a specific map for swell period, but you can get an idea of the swell period by looking at the swell direction and size. The WAM model used by Windy provides information on swell size and direction, which can be used to estimate the swell period.
However, I understand that having a dedicated swell period map would be helpful for surfers, and I will certainly pass your suggestion along to our development team for consideration in future updates to the app. -
Hi Thomas. That would be excellent, and a lot of help to many of us. I look forward to seeing and using this feature, in a not too long away update! Thanks.
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Great to see there is some interest in having Significant Wave Period and Peak Period displayed on Windy!
These are the most useful for surfers and better than mean period fields.
They allow the user to much more clearly distinguish between swells and track them over distances.In the ECMWF paramater list I can see ( https://codes.ecmwf.int/grib/param-db/ ) "Swell Peak Period" and "Wave Peak Period", the former being more useful
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@MDason said in Wave Period Maps:
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@idefix37. This suggestion from @MDason is a great idea. Could these two wave period data be added to the spot picker in place of the swell period that is currently shown?
The wave period maps would be great too, but perhaps the tabular data could be implemented much sooner and easier.
Many thanks again.
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@O-C
Personally I doubt that many Windy users will be able to understand these 2 parameters. The original question was about a swell period layer. -
Pushing this old request up again.
Any update on implementing a wave period layer? Should be easy enough, the data is already there, it only has to be visualised in a map overlay?
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Oh, I'm glad to see my original post got some attention. Pushing it up for the Dev's attention again. ;-) I am happy to try and explain more about what exactly we surfers are looking for. It seems from the comments above I'm not the only one.
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Pushing this thread again, still waiting on those wave period layers.
They would be so great to have, any update?
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Hi. There are a lot of different posts on here from surfers all with the same type of requests.
Here is one I suggested in a separate post as I couldn't add it into this one.
https://community.windy.com/topic/39756/better-presentation-of-wave-data?_=1747064073658
@Suty - could you please check out my post, and this one, and push this to the developers. I was looking into creating a Windy Plugin, and the information we would like to see is in the ECMWS model ready to add.
We would all be very grateful :-)
If you have upcoming plans to enhance the wave information please let us know so we can stop hounding you!
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@O-C I will keep the suggestion for upcoming plans, for now there is no plan to handle that, but it can be added in future.
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@Suty - thank you for the update.
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