Route Planner Distance vs Animated Weather Data Mismatch
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@idefix37 The apparent mismatch occurs when the route crosses the 180° meridian. In that case, Windy splits the route into two parts, and the way they are displayed depends on how the map is centered. This can make the animation and route table look inconsistent, even though the data itself is correct.
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@Zdravko-Atanasov
The issue when crossing the 180° meridian is known and it is not possible to solve it.
See a similar thread
I suggest you plot a route up to 179° W and then another one from 179° E. Then you can save these routes in your Favourites. -
@idefix37 The route itself is not the issue. The problem is that the animated visualization and the numerical route weather data for the same timestamp do not match. The table appears to underrepresent the conditions shown in the animation.
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@Zdravko-Atanasov
They match. I’ve never encountered a similar issue with a route that does not cross the antimeridian.
To verify, try to plot a route out of this meridian. -
@idefix37 It is still incorrect, and I cannot understand why. It appears that Windy may have an issue, as the displayed information does not match the expected conditions.
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@Zdravko-Atanasov
This is strange and I don’t know how you manage to display the weather picker at same time as the Route planner. I can’t do that because this week I am only using an iPad.
To check the right matching between the map and the table I can only use the colors of the map that I customised. See my color settings:
You see that the WP 3 is in the color corresponding to 3.8 - 4.2m wave heights, and shows 3.8m in the table
And wave directions are synchronised too.
Have you checked that the wind and wave directions reference is well set to “North up” in “More option” ?
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@idefix37 yes, everything is checked, the problem look like may be the time synchronization, but that why I'm using UTC, and up to now, everything was fine. This problem is observed on two different computers with 2 different account and settings.
Regarding the weather picker, in the windows desktop interface, weather picker can be chosen and is changing simultaneously as the time. I'm using this kind of observations for a few years, but only now the problem appears. -
@Zdravko-Atanasov
It’s really weird. Generally the Route planner users which encounter this issue it is because they forget to turn ON the speed switch. But it is enabled on your screenshots.
Hope someone in the Windy team can find the reason of this malfunction. -
@idefix37 How to inform Windy team about this issue?
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@Zdravko-Atanasov
Usually they read the different posts here on the community forum.
But you can contact them also at info@windy.com
