Add frontal boundaries
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Hi, love this diverse and versatile program! A very useful and informative addition to my flying activities. Wanted to suggest you add frontal boundaries as a selectable feature on the main weather map. Some of the EFB apps animate their weather fronts in spastic, jerky steps, and the boundaries themselves are like stick figures. Could you please animate these boundaries so that they have some substance to them (they're thicker, but not grossly thick), and they flow across an area smoothly instead of jerking crazily across the map like some obscene video game? Boundaries include these fronts: cold, warm, occluded, stationary, as well as dry lines, troughs, ridges, and high-pressure / low-pressure centers. The boundaries could be colored by the U.S. National Weather Service criteria. Thanks for reading this, appreciate your time.
Bill Palmer
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@wdpalmer
Why hasn't Windy shown frontal boundaries for nearly ten years, even though many users have been asking for them?
It is because Windy visualizes data from weather models, and those models are not capable of plotting frontal lines. These lines are drawn by meteorological departments like those of NWS, MetOffice, DWD, MeteoFrance… -
@wdpalmer there was good/interesting communication thread for this :)
(at least, the explanation made sense to me)
https://community.windy.com/topic/5629/addition-of-fronts/19
