500/850 hpa Maps / Deviation Maps / warm and cold fronts
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Hi,
Windy is my absolute favorite weather app—thank you for creating such a fantastic product!
One feature I'd love to see is additional meteorological maps, particularly for 500 hPa geopotential height and 850 hPa temperature/geopotential fields, as well as an overlay showing warm and cold fronts similar to those found on traditional synoptic weather maps.
I know that geopotential contour lines can already be displayed, but having a dedicated, colorized visualization would be extremely useful and much easier to interpret at a glance.
Is there a particular reason why these maps are not currently available? I ask because most weather websites provide them, and they are often among the most prominent forecast products due to their importance for understanding large-scale weather patterns. I'd be very interested to hear your thoughts on this.
To clarify what I mean, here is an example of a 500 hPa anomaly map from wxcharts.com:
On wetterzentrale.de, you can find other images as well:
https://wetterzentrale.de/en/topkarten.php?map=1&model=gfs&var=2&time=6&run=6&lid=OP&h=0&mv=0&tr=6