Synoptic layer
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Good day Windy team
Hope you are well.
I have a suggestion if you don't mind can you maybe add an layer where you can see cold fronts and warm fronts .
I would greatly appreciate the feedback -
@tigermoth0401
Everyone would appreciate to see frontal boundaries in Windy.
If Windy hasn't shown them since 2014, there is a reason: Windy visualises the forecasts of weather models and these are not able to display fronts directly. They are plotted by meteorologists and Windy does not have any. One day may be, the weather models will be smarter at predicting fronts. -
@idefix37 This has been a moderator standard reply and it is just plain wrong. Windy does not JUST display forecast models. For example, as you know, Windy has a layer called weather warnings which are issued by meteorologists on an as-needed basis and displayed in Windy. Weather front data (released every 3 hrs in the U.S. by meteorologists) is available just like the weather warnings data and could be displayed if the Windy team decided there was a way to integrate the various weather front data sources (i.e. U.S. National Weather Service, UK Met Office, etc.). This is not a question of if one day weather models will be smarter at predicting fronts. Even the forecast fronts are available and could be plotted. Just take a look at windy competitors that display current weather front data.
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My reply was absolutely not wrong (I do confirm that fronts are not plotted by weather models) and I never said that Windy only shows data from weather models.
So the question is where do you find the frontal boundaries as numerical data but not just as images, not just in one country or two, but covering almost the whole globe. Just try to mix the fronts drawn by the NWS and by the MetOffice as you propose them, you may be surprised to see that it is almost impossible to make them matching as a composite picture (independently of their different projection system). Try and let us know. -
@idefix37 "Try and let us know"...lol. Park the attitude...moderator. The point is that windy does more than just display weather models so in theory, it could display fronts. It has nothing to do with whether or not weather models can. The message that you promote that Windy can't do it because they are plotted by meteorologists is not accurate. Windy could. On the topic of global coverage, does the Windy layer for Weather Warnings plotted by meteorologists cover the entire globe? No. So the same could be done for fronts for most of the globe using something like the NWS Ocean Prediction Centers fronts.
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So you tried to mix the NWS and MetOffice front maps and realized that was a wrong idea. Fine…:)
Proposing the NWS front maps covering North America, the north Atlantic and the north Pacific is a much better idea that I have shared for a long time. The question is whether these maps are available as free data. You may know it…
https://ocean.weather.gov/unified_analysis.phpFor me the best option for Windy would be to link the NWS fronts map with GFS layers as an overlay and same with that of DWD with ICON, that of BoM with ACCESS. Leaving other parts of the world a bit frustrated. But that would not be possible in that case to show them with Satellite or Radar layers.
