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    • jmdsJ Offline
      jmds
      last edited by

      Excellent idea.Please let me know when it is available.

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      • OrecaO Offline
        Oreca
        last edited by

        Very nice and useful add on.

        D.K.

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        • DAVEMatthewsD Offline
          DAVEMatthews
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          EXCELLENT works well on Mac Book Pro. Keep up the great work. Thanks, Dave Matthews, PhD

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            mgeigert
            last edited by

            I am impressed that you actually installed your own dish. I am very interested in smoke plumes but your current visible image does not display it like the web site that I currently use.July-15,-2019-Satellite.png

            Any chance of adding this type of visible display?
            Michael from CT DEEP

            Michael Geigert

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            • bdiddydog1B Offline
              bdiddydog1 | Premium
              last edited by

              Love it! I'm a weather nerd and honestly, you guys have the best app out there.

              What do the brownish tones stand for? Dry air? There is a lot of smoke coming from the Canadien Wild Fires.

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              • HomoTelepathicusH Offline
                HomoTelepathicus
                last edited by

                Huge thanks to the Windy Team for such a totally awesome site. Do not stop what you are doing. Youre doing it right. Cant wait to see the satellite layer. Been using this site for over 2 years now. Wouldn't use anything else.

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                  Ivanovskiy
                  last edited by

                  The nephogram is good, but I need more borders, such as province, counties...

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                    Gkikas LGPZ Moderator Meteorologist @Ivanovskiy
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                    @Ivanovskiy
                    Have you tried to zoom-in?

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                      Gkikas LGPZ Moderator Meteorologist @MDason
                      last edited by

                      @MDason
                      Try skewT plugin
                      https://community.windy.com/topic/7541/windy-plugin-skewt-now-running-with-ecmwf-data/7

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                        TZ Administrator @bdiddydog1
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                        @bdiddydog1 Hi! I hope we both are talking about satellite layer :-) The yellow colour is for low clouds/fog while white/blue colours are for high clouds. It is handy to distinguish between these two layers. You can often see how these layers move separately at different speed and in different direction. Also you can observe evolution of the storms (from cumulus to cumulonimbus)

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                          idefix37 Sailor Moderator @TZ
                          last edited by idefix37

                          @TZ
                          I understood this difference in color based on clouds altitude, but could we know at which altitude the color changes?
                          https://community.windy.com/topic/8820/windy-launches-satellite-layer/62

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                            vernonro
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                            Great tool. Used this to warn wildland firefighters of incoming cold front with thunderstorms yesterday in northern Ontario, CA. Our location is outside of radar so also used it to advise division supervisors when it was going to be clear enough for them to get out with the helicopters and check on the fire crews.
                            Thank you
                            Ontario Fire Behaviour Analyst

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                              TZ Administrator @idefix37
                              last edited by

                              @idefix37 Unfortunately not, the color is based on temperature. So from this imagery it is not possible to determine clouds altitude. Also it is not possible to distinguish between snow and low clouds. It could be possible with some cloud mask products. To sum it up: this is challenge for future ;-)

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                                idefix37 Sailor Moderator @TZ
                                last edited by

                                @TZ
                                Thank you for your answer.

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                                • mwvanderwaltM Offline
                                  mwvanderwalt | Premium
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                                  As a short note, this was a marriage made in heaven! Thank you again, Windy.com, for delivering an innovative package that can easily display multiple real-time and near real-time content! You are an amateur meteorologist's dream.

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                                    don72
                                    last edited by

                                    i cant wait to see the full roll out ... love this app !

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                                      Gkikas LGPZ Moderator Meteorologist @seba397
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                                      @seba397
                                      In INFRA+, cloud top temperature given in Kelvin scale (K).
                                      240K - 273.15 = -33.15°C
                                      200K - 273.15 = -73.15°C

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                                        ricolo
                                        last edited by

                                        Looks spectacular, Love it

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                                          ProStormChaser
                                          last edited by

                                          Very Cool!

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                                            carolphe
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                                            Not working for me!

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