embed sounding component
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Hi all,
I work with a small environmental group in a small BC (Canada) town in a steep sided valley with serious air quality issues due to wood smoke when the mixing level is low.I'd like to build a website that predicts low mixing levels in a visually evocative way to help folks know when they, if possible, should hold off from burning. The BC govt publishes a single number each morning.. the venting index. Not evocative.
I've been looking at the sounding diagrams and thinking how nice it would be if there was a react component or suchlike that we could embed. I'm not sure I'd call such an diagram an "evocative" visual -- but at least it has some scientific basis.
Any suggestions?
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@jmzaleski Unfortunately, sounding graphs are not anyhow planned to be included in our embed system.
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@Suty not surprising that you guys don’t have a component in your plans. Do the current API’s provide enough data for me to plot my own sounding chart?
In a perfect world I could get the forecast from several different models via one unified API (ie yours)
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@jmzaleski You can check the whole offer of our API on api.windy.com.
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an update for anyone who is interested. In the end I fetched the sounding forecast data from open-meteo. Then, I looked high and low for a skew-T graphing component. In the end I just used matplotlib and rendered a png. Even so there is no obviously blessed skew-t drawing python code. I used "from metpy.plots import SkewT".
It's pretty good. My only quibble is that I will need to hack around in the component to plot altitude in meters rather than pressure (which I think is essential for regular folk to see where potential inversions are relative to the valley we live in)
