Am I misunderstanding or setting this up wrong?
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New user learning how to use windy for aviation.
I have the airports selected and go to the visibility tab. Some airports are reporting low visibility but the visibility tabis showing clear in that area. It shows the opposite too, airport reporting the area as clear yet visibility tab shows low vis in that area.The photo shows an example.
Palatka airport reports 0.5 vis, windy vis tab shows clear
Daytona airport reports clear, windy vis tab shows low IFR
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@HeloJapes
"Vis tab" is a forecast product made by weather forecast models.
Forecasts sometimes differ from actual-reported values of visibility, wind, temperature, rain etc.
Especially visibility (and cloud bases) is a parameter that is not easily forecast from global models. -
@Gkikas-LGPZ thanks. Can you tell me which tabs are good sources for current weather and which should only be used for future forecasts. Its a little unclear as they all have a timeline bar that includes the current time.
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@HeloJapes
Most map layers are visualizations of guidance models, but some are current data.
The best way to find out is find the "About these data" icon.On my desktop it's this "i" icon that's circled:
For aviation, the airport layer that you have selected is great. Actually, I think most things in that section of layers are current data, a few aren't but the name explains them too.
The top section of the menu is "Weather now":
I feel like Weather Warnings should be in this section too.Hope that's helpful.
