<![CDATA[Feedback/Questions about Soundings feature]]>Hi - thanks very much for this new feature!

Comments:

  • I like the display of air temp and dew point
  • I like the ability to select a particular altitude with the cursor
  • I like how there are two ranges of altitudes

Questions:

  • what do the two grey lines represent?
  • if the diagram is a forecast, what is the date/time range of the forecast?

Thanks much,

BP

]]>https://community.windy.com/topic/7023/feedback-questions-about-soundings-featureRSS for NodeWed, 12 Aug 2026 09:43:16 GMTFri, 26 Oct 2018 12:00:41 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Feedback/Questions about Soundings feature on Sun, 12 Jan 2020 11:59:18 GMT]]>@wattchdog
In addition, see also a recent article on Windy:
https://community.windy.com/topic/10871/the-history-of-weather-balloon
These soundings allow to obtain the profile of several parameters (temperature, dew point temperature, pressure, wind ...) and to draw this kind of diagram:
https://soaringmeteo.org/raspsounding.pdf

On Windy, soundings are not the result of launching balloons into the atmosphere, but they are obtained from weather models data at different altitudes. That makes possible to plot, for example from the ECMWF model, this kind of atmospheric profile:

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Soundings are much more useful to pilots than to sailors.

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/37336https://community.windy.com/post/37336Sun, 12 Jan 2020 11:59:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Feedback/Questions about Soundings feature on Sun, 12 Jan 2020 09:10:28 GMT]]>@wattchdog
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_sounding

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/37326https://community.windy.com/post/37326Sun, 12 Jan 2020 09:10:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Feedback/Questions about Soundings feature on Sat, 11 Jan 2020 20:48:34 GMT]]>@idefix37 ahhh that makes sense :) thank you!!

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/37294https://community.windy.com/post/37294Sat, 11 Jan 2020 20:48:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Feedback/Questions about Soundings feature on Sat, 11 Jan 2020 19:08:16 GMT]]>@idefix37 can anyone explain briefly what the term (sounding) means?
Thx.
Btw I live on a 35' sailboat in tampa.

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/37290https://community.windy.com/post/37290Sat, 11 Jan 2020 19:08:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Feedback/Questions about Soundings feature on Sat, 11 Jan 2020 16:20:22 GMT]]>@hangloose-87
For me this is an usual symbol for « no wind ».
https://blog.mapbox.com/mapping-wind-barbs-to-show-speed-and-direction-4d3078add03d
Sometime « no wind » or « calm » is shown by 2 concentric circles.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Station_model

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/37283https://community.windy.com/post/37283Sat, 11 Jan 2020 16:20:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Feedback/Questions about Soundings feature on Sat, 11 Jan 2020 16:04:54 GMT]]>Hey guys...

hope i am right here in this topic...

just saw on todays forecast this little dot (red arrow)
what does this little fella wants to help me see?! ;)
windydot.jpg

cheers, seb.

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/37282https://community.windy.com/post/37282Sat, 11 Jan 2020 16:04:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Feedback/Questions about Soundings feature on Sun, 16 Dec 2018 20:43:28 GMT]]>To me it seems, that it's rather three grey lines:

  • The saturation ratio (connecting the dew point on ground level with the red line)
  • The dry adiabate (from ground level to the point where the saturation ratio line reaches the redline
  • And the moist adiabate (continuing from the red line)

Is that correct?

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/17482https://community.windy.com/post/17482Sun, 16 Dec 2018 20:43:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Feedback/Questions about Soundings feature on Fri, 02 Nov 2018 12:26:23 GMT]]>@mike_h
If the sounding window is partially hidden by the meteogram, just drag the map upward and the sounding window will follow.

Then when you click on the sounding window, a horizontal bar appears. It gives temperature and wind figures at a chosen level. You can click on this bar itself and drag it at the level you want. If you drag it below the horizontal axis, it disappears.
Personally I do not see the need to improve this feature.

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/16459https://community.windy.com/post/16459Fri, 02 Nov 2018 12:26:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Feedback/Questions about Soundings feature on Fri, 02 Nov 2018 10:38:15 GMT]]>Hi - the Sounding pop-out is great, but here are some suggestions for improvement.
This is what I get when I open the pop-out. It is sometimes partially hidden behind the weather window
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I think the pop-out should be in front of everything.

The second item is the handle for moving the horizontal line, at the moment I have found by trial and error that it is sometimes about one third of the pop-out window's height below the actual line, but then there are times when it behaves , randomly. If I left click in the pop-out the horizontal bar will move up, down, or disappear.
I am seeing the website through Firefox run by Ubuntu.

Regards

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/16455https://community.windy.com/post/16455Fri, 02 Nov 2018 10:38:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Feedback/Questions about Soundings feature on Fri, 02 Nov 2018 08:31:32 GMT]]>... and
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]]>https://community.windy.com/post/16453https://community.windy.com/post/16453Fri, 02 Nov 2018 08:31:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Feedback/Questions about Soundings feature on Fri, 02 Nov 2018 07:44:22 GMT]]>@wdpalmer said in Feedback/Questions about Soundings feature:

Questions:

  • what do the two grey lines represent?

Answer to one of your questions

https://community.windy.com/topic/6998/windy-offers-sounding-forecast/32

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/16450https://community.windy.com/post/16450Fri, 02 Nov 2018 07:44:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Feedback/Questions about Soundings feature on Wed, 31 Oct 2018 09:01:16 GMT]]>@siim thanks!

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/16382https://community.windy.com/post/16382Wed, 31 Oct 2018 09:01:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Feedback/Questions about Soundings feature on Wed, 31 Oct 2018 08:59:30 GMT]]>@meegt60

Right click with mouse or long tap with touchscreen on your selected point on map.

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/16381https://community.windy.com/post/16381Wed, 31 Oct 2018 08:59:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Feedback/Questions about Soundings feature on Wed, 31 Oct 2018 08:36:52 GMT]]>Please, can anyone tell me how I can start the new sounding forecast plug-in?
I can't find it within Windy.

Thanks! Mario

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/16380https://community.windy.com/post/16380Wed, 31 Oct 2018 08:36:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Feedback/Questions about Soundings feature on Fri, 26 Oct 2018 12:51:54 GMT]]>Love the new Sounding feature!

Please label the lines.

Thanks!

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/16214https://community.windy.com/post/16214Fri, 26 Oct 2018 12:51:54 GMT