Clarification for Premium Satellite Widget
-
Hello everyone,
I am trying to get more familiar with this app and after some google searches, I couldn't find the anwser. So I am using this Premium Satellite Widget on Infra+.
I was under the impression that the colours I see on the map were radar reflections. But when I look at the radar widget, I don't see the same colour pattern. Of course, radar isn't the same as satellite but I thought I could overlap the radar with the satelitte images.
So what exactly are the colours I am seeing on the Satellite widget? This is on IOS btw.
Thanks in advance and have a nice day!
-
@Jesse-Zwart
As you said, your first screenshot is the Satellite widget with “Infra” setting.
Nothing to do with radar rendering. Infra (infrared) shows the colorised brightness temperature of the top of clouds. See the Satellite layer with the “infra” option to understand what it means using the temperature picker in the browser version. -
@idefix37 Satellite imagery is very useful during certain time windows and provides a very high-quality visualisation. However, it would be a valuable upgrade to enhance the visualisation by adopting a different approach during those hours when satellite imagery adds little information.
+1 like to that kind of improvement :)
-
@SolariaCC
What approach ? Your post is sibylline.
@jesse-zwart is talking about the widgets.I repeat what I said answering to one of your previous posts
“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.”
But I am not a specialist of this matter. -
@idefix37 Thank you for clarifying. It makes more sense when using the browser version. Is there a reason why some parts are coloured and some are not? When I see the coloured regions, the brightness temperature is lower. 'Non-coloured' clouds seem to be warmer. Why is it useful to be able to see this? In your previous post here, I saw that it might increase convective weather: https://community.windy.com/topic/15801/infra.
Can the radar reflection, which shows reflections of water particles (if I am correct), and the satellite cloud temperature be used to determine whether there is a chance of bad weather? If there is reflection and some convective weather, I assume the weather might be bad.
Is it currently not possible to have the satellite widget with a radar overlay? As I can currently with the Satellite layer?
-
Is there a reason why some parts are coloured and some are not?
The purpose of this layer is to show areas that present convective risks. So why add colors to areas without this risk? But you can do it -> Settings -> Customize color scales.
Can the radar reflection, which shows reflections of water particles (if I am correct), and the satellite cloud temperature be used to determine whether there is a chance of bad weather?
It is theoretically possible to mix 2 colored layers, but the result is very poor. You would be disappointed.
Is it currently not possible to have the satellite widget with a radar overlay?
No, this is not possible.
