Tide Forecast on Windy
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@kdrelich Happy to hear it. :)
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Isn't that a bug?
Kasia
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@nowakka940 What are you referring to please?
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It could be really useful to visualize the direction and strenght of predicted currents at the forecast stations. https://deepzoom.com/ for example uses differently sized arrows to indicate current strength. The direction of currents are usually available as static property of tide forecast stations.
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@gwicke Hello, the direction of tide is displayed at each station on the map. But thank you for suggestion.
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@korina, are you saying this functionality is already available? Maybe I have not found the right setting, but I am not seeing directional information in the map view, nor in the mouse-over hovers:
This is for https://www.windy.com/-Tidal-currents-currentsTide?currentsTide,48.571,-122.790,11,i:pressure,m:e0iacJV.The "tidal currents" and "currents" particle animation layers both look fairly useless / highly inaccurate in an area like the San Juan Islands. Station based tide forecasts are much more accurate, but do not indicate current direction currently, beyond "flooding", "slack", and "ebbing". Between islands, the direction of "flooding" or "ebbing" is often not very obvious.
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The direction of currents are usually available as static property of tide forecast stations.
To expand on this with an example, NOAA station https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/noaacurrents/Predictions?id=PCT2126_1 lists the mean flood and ebb direction in its plain text and xml data formats. Example from XML station metadata:
- meanFloodDir: 315°(T)
- meanEbbDir:125° (T)
Current display in Windy:
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@gwicke Hello, the direction of currents or tidal currents is clearly visible by the moving particles. There is currently no other settings to display it differently.
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The link to Weeks Bay in Baldwin County Alabama has Louisiana information!
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