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    • jidanniJ
      jidanni
      last edited by

      • Visit https://www.windy.com/-Rain-thunder-rain?rain,23.790,120.624,8
      • Hit keyboard→→→→... to advance time three hours at a time.

      You will observe that for major storm blobs one can follow the logic of how they travel.

      But for anything less, it is: how did cloud A jump to point B? Etc.

      Therefore we see that three hour jumps are just too wide.

      One hour jumps are needed to keep the cloud movement logic recognizable. P.S., no I am not "overly zoomed in for my own good."

      The site does a super job with the little wind arrows. Now time to fix up jerky weather blob (cloud) movement.

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      • jidanniJ
        jidanni
        last edited by

        OK it seems each zoom level has a differing level of appropriate jump gaps.
        At zoom level 5 three hours is fine, and any finer grained jumps are a luxury.
        But at zoom level 8 at least one-hour granularity seems to be best -- unless it is clear desert weather all day with no changes at all.

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        • Gkikas LGPZG
          Gkikas LGPZ Moderator @jidanni
          last edited by

          @jidanni
          ECMWF and NEMS models, provide data in 3hrs timesteps.
          GFS and ICON , in 1 hr.

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          • jidanniJ
            jidanni @Gkikas LGPZ
            last edited by

            @Gkikas-LGPZ I see. Hmmm, it seems that their predictions are vastly different too. So I suppose you fellows made the best choice for default. OK.

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