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@wxcycles said in Windy Customized Graphics:
Windy Customized Graphics
Description: This custom “Wind” overlay display is designed to provide a clear color depiction of the Saffir-Simpson wind-scale so that you can precisely view cyclonic-storm wind strength categories as forecast, and the areas forecast to be most affected.The Saffir-Simpson scale is based on «maximum sustained wind » considered as the highest average wind over 1-minute.
I think that the ECMWF wind data are calibrated over 10-minutes average (I don’t know for GFS and NAM). So your color settings will not match really the Saffir-Simpson wind scale on Windy maps.
I am using my own color settings which are based on 10-minutes average winds according to the Beaufort scale. This scale is more useful in Europe where wind speed beyond 64kt are really rare. It gives more color details on winds between 0 to hurricane force.
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Not bad!
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@wxcycles said in Windy Customized Graphics:
I hear you, and you are of course strictly correct in the technical classification aspect.....etc....
I totally agree with you. Especially with the importance of gusts on land and their effects. Then I know that the Beaufort scale is not meaningful on land while it is still used at sea (The Beaufort scale is widely used for marine weather forecasts in most of European and Asian countries)
I have set my Wind color palet on this scale because each degree « speaks » to me, even if I never use the Beaufort degrees to display Wind on Windy, only knots or km/h.Your job on color settings is very impressive !
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