Satellite View Clouds visualization
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Why do clouds disappear in satellite visualisations as night progresses? They should be visible at all times, regardless of whether there is sunlight or not.
Could the visualisation be improved so that clouds are consistently displayed in the same way at all times?
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In addition, the visualisation with the rainfall radar overlaid does not align with the legend shown, which is displayed in °C rather than, for example, mm/h
Thank you in advance
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@SolariaCC said in Satellite View Clouds visualization:
Why do clouds disappear in satellite visualisations as night progresses? They should be visible at all times, regardless of whether there is sunlight or not.
No, clouds are not visible at night. To see them during the night you can select “infra” (infrared) which show clouds using infrared sensors.
Note that “blue” is mixing the visible spectrum and the infrared spectrum. So it displays clouds at night too even if during the night cloud rendering is not so bright. You are very demanding.In addition, the visualisation with the rainfall radar overlaid does not align with the legend shown, which is displayed in °C rather than, for example, mm/h
You show the Satellite layer and in this layer the temperature is the brightness temperature of the cloud tops showing the altitude of these cloud tops. If you want to see the rain rate, you should select the Radar layer.
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Hi @idefix37
Thank you for the answer.
Infrared imagery does not depict clouds particularly well at night. An example is attached.The clouds are there, so it is a pity not to be able to track them.
Is there any option to create a hybrid or blended view combining cloud visualisation and satellite imagery, so that clouds and precipitation are displayed as accurately as possible at any time of day?
I appreciate that this may be asking a lot; however, these are ultimately suggestions aimed at improving the tool.
Regards
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@SolariaCC said in Satellite View Clouds visualization:
Is there any option to create a hybrid or blended view combining cloud visualisation and satellite imagery, so that clouds and precipitation are displayed as accurately as possible at any time of day?
To my knowledge there is no way to obtain a global visualisation of clouds other than through satellite imagery, in the visible spectrum during the day and in infrared spectrum at night. “Blue” shows blended pictures of these day and night views.
I appreciate that this may be asking a lot
Yes, I think so. Why do you need such high-precision views. Are you conducting scientific research?
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@idefix37 The objective is to enable detailed, real-time monitoring of meteorological conditions for analytical purposes.
This would involve a combined or easily accessible visualisation of wind, cloud cover, precipitation, snowfall and temperature, available at any time of day, and, where possible, complemented by short-term forecasts for the coming hours (for example, extending the current one-hour satellite forecast horizon).
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This is an idea about what I was trying to show you. Same time, Satelitte Visual.
It is possible to follow clouds no matter the time. And also includes rain measure. -
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Windy also offers a combined view of satellite and radar precipitation images.If you prefer Meteoblue's nighttime image quality to the one in Windy, you can use it. That’s fine!
Windy developers might even seek feedback from their colleagues at Meteoblue :) -
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@Arzaga-Milano said in Satellite View Clouds visualization:
@idefix37
I don't think suggesting using another app instead of Windy is a serious answer.So why do suggest another app, wetteronline?
Meteoblue is a sister company of windy.com and windy shows their model and their meteograms as a plugin.In your previous posts, I noted that you provided links to several weather apps. This isn't allowed on the forum and should be considered promoting competing apps. Therefore, you would do well to moderate your advice, otherwise I will do it myself.
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@idefix37 i couldnt find combined view of satellite and radar precipitation images. could you help me?
I know that Meteoblue and Windy are colleagues thats another reason for my suggestion. Would be great
I like Windy, just wanted to share some feedback to improve maybe
Also, in the satellite view could be possible maybe to have more forecast? 2 hours ahead maybe instead of 1?
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i couldnt find combined view of satellite and radar precipitation images. could you help me?
In Satellite, you need to enable “Overlay with radar”
Extending the “pseudo-forecast” is often request by users. But it is simply the extrapolation of the last image of the satellite or radar loop, in the direction of the same stream. So it is not a true forecast. You can imagine specially in convective conditions that its accuracy is likely to be low.
Since you regularly observe satellite images on Windy, you have surely a relevant opinion on this matter.
