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    • wdpalmerW
      wdpalmer | Premium
      last edited by

      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

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        n2wx | Premium
        last edited by

        Love the new Sounding feature!

        Please label the lines.

        Thanks!

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        • meegt60M
          meegt60 | Premium
          last edited by

          Please, can anyone tell me how I can start the new sounding forecast plug-in?
          I can't find it within Windy.

          Thanks! Mario

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          • siimS
            siim @meegt60
            last edited by

            @meegt60

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

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            • meegt60M
              meegt60 @siim | Premium
              last edited by

              @siim thanks!

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              • idefix37I
                idefix37 Sailor Moderator @wdpalmer
                last edited by idefix37

                @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

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                • Gkikas LGPZG
                  Gkikas LGPZ Moderator Meteorologist @idefix37
                  last edited by

                  ... and
                  0_1541147482659_791c6d02-d2bf-4d50-8af7-18329c7f2bed-εικόνα.png

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                  • Mike_HM
                    Mike_H
                    last edited by

                    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
                    0_1541154207011_7397682c-2cc1-4cdd-aa04-94e3f2c73290-image.png
                    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

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                    • idefix37I
                      idefix37 Sailor Moderator @Mike_H
                      last edited by idefix37

                      @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.

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                      • C
                        chrs_brln | Premium
                        last edited by

                        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?

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                        • hangloose-87H
                          hangloose-87
                          last edited by

                          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.

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                          • idefix37I
                            idefix37 Sailor Moderator @hangloose-87
                            last edited by idefix37

                            @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

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                              wattchdog @idefix37
                              last edited by

                              @idefix37 can anyone explain briefly what the term (sounding) means?
                              Thx.
                              Btw I live on a 35' sailboat in tampa.

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                              • hangloose-87H
                                hangloose-87 @idefix37
                                last edited by

                                @idefix37 ahhh that makes sense :) thank you!!

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                                • Gkikas LGPZG
                                  Gkikas LGPZ Moderator Meteorologist @wattchdog
                                  last edited by

                                  @wattchdog
                                  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_sounding

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                                  • idefix37I
                                    idefix37 Sailor Moderator @wattchdog
                                    last edited by idefix37

                                    @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:

                                    F2359C0C-DAFF-4737-9622-642F643272E2.jpeg

                                    Soundings are much more useful to pilots than to sailors.

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