Windy offers Sounding Forecast
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Excuse my stupidity .. but what is sounding forecast and what is it used for... I am just someone who has a real interest in the weather, so please , try and keep it simple ;-) Thanks
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This is really good. Could you also include actual readings as well. I'm sure you can get the data from airport weather stations.
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Super sprawa.
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Great idea - but http://www.xcmeteo.net has been a much better display for some years (for paragliders), although unfortunately it comes from the GFS.
Paragliders and other non-powered airplane pilots are mainly interested in how powerful the thermal will be, what will be available and where the cloud base will be - and it is hard to recognize from your charts. They need to see the chart in detail up to a maximum of 4000 - 5000 m. What temperature and wind will the 13,000 m be likely to be interested in transport aircraft pilots.
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Maybe there could be 2 versions of the chart up to 13000 m and 5000 m ...
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@krchnavy there is such detail, just use the zoom in lower right corner
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Well done. Thanks a lot to @TZ sk
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Gud job guys
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@gillie-0
Sounding is a diagram that shows the vertical distribution
of temperature, humidity and wind into the atmosphere.
Usually the observations are made by radiosondes
(instruments carried into the atmosphere by a weather balloon).Weather models can give us forecast data of the same parameters
so we can prepare "forecast soundings".Soundings are used by (glider) pilots to know thermals, winds aloft, icing forecast etc
and by meteorologists (and weather enthusiasts) for rain/snow forecast,
fog forecasting, turbulence, cloud bases/tops, thunderstorms etc
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Excuse me, but how can I do select a diferent pressure levels?.
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How do I open it? I can't seem to find it....
By the way, Airgram seems to be much faster now, great job!
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@gkikas-lgpz totally? we all expect some improvement ;)
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@guy_bottlaender
Yes!
Pilots expect turbulence/icing forecasts,
farmers, soil temp. at varius depths and soil trafficability
mariners, sea/lake ice cover,
fighter pilots, absolute humidity (for targeting with IR weapons)
people with allergies, pollen forecasts
etc etc :-)
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@ivo
Hi, that's great, makes the package complete.
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@ivo
I'm guessing the two diagonal grey lines DALR and SALR ?
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@klima235 said in Windy offers Sounding Forecast:
Excuse me, but how can I do select a diferent pressure levels?.
there is a high slider om the right side
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@ivo
The moveable line showing altitude, wind speed, dewpoint and temperature is really useful but seems to be erratic or even random in it's behaviour, if you can get that right it will be perfect!
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This tool is great for basic assessment of the wind profile. It would become powerful if the data displayed on the chart could be exported at some resolution like 500'/1000' to feed physical models for, say, high-altitude balloon trajectory planning. Any possibility of such a function to be deployed?
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Awesome! Thats very useful tool for all forecasters, stormchassers, etc. Thanks a lot!
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Great! Congratulations to all staff of Windy!
