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    • afurley
      afurley Sailor last edited by

      I think most of this has been said but just to reiterate, from a sailing perspective there is little point having the forecast along the entire route for one moment in time as clearly, for a journey of any length, the situation will have changed substantially by the time the boat (moving at 6-7kts) has got there! So it would be really nice if 'boat mode' by default showed the predictions along the route given a specific boat speed.

      That said, I have now got the hang of the fact that the weekdays along the top of the table do not relate to the weather beneath (this was very confusing) and I can make predictions by shifting the bar around. It's a bit cumbersome, but nonetheless worthwhile and helping me guide my friends across the Indian Ocean.

      The last request is that the routes be save-able! (if they are already I have not seen how?). It is a pain to have to keep re-entering multiple waypoints everytime I come back to the app!

      Thanks for everything, this is the most brilliant weather program in existance!

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        TD737 last edited by

        Dear Windy,

        Nice feature; I will use it to track distance to my enroute alternates! However, can you provide me the definitions of 1) ECMWF and 2) GFS? Also how is Windy defining [cloud height] 1) medium clouds and 2) low clouds?

        Thanks,

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        • Gkikas LGPZ
          Gkikas LGPZ Moderator @TD737 last edited by

          @TD737
          ECMWF and GFS are global weather models
          https://community.windy.com/topic/12/what-source-of-weather-data-windy-use

          For description of weather overlays:
          https://community.windy.com/topic/3361/description-of-weather-overlays

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          • diveservices
            diveservices @marekd | Premium last edited by

            @marekd love it love it love it

            Joel Michello

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            • earthmanray
              earthmanray last edited by

              U guys R awesome with cutting edge thinking ....beautifully done once the user gets past the learning curve

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                gniemann Pilot last edited by

                Toll, das Euer Bestreben ist, vielen Interessenten viel Informationen zur Verfügung zu stellen. Danke
                Hochachtungt für Euer Bemühen,

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                  LMCBALLON @marekd | Premium last edited by

                  @marekd
                  I'm a balloonist and have a high emphasis on surface and lower elevation winds (100m, 300m, 500 m, 750m) for flight planning. Other than that as of now => great tool.

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                    Frelle | Premium last edited by

                    This is a super feature, thank you I'll use it for flight planning both VFR and IFR low level to 20.000 ft. For this I would need to add route, departure time ETD, True Airspeed TAS and altitude.
                    Important extra information is a 0 degree gradient relative to MSL(!), ising and information about CBs. For routes of a duration of more than one hour, the diagram should show weather relative to time. Alternatively, use time at the midpoint of the route. I would prefer wind arrows north up, but the red/black/green coloring is excellent.
                    Finally, a nice to have would be mean of groundspeed and arrival time - ETA.

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                      stitch Meteorologist | Premium last edited by stitch

                      Thankyou @marekd for the updated VFR display.

                      I greatly appreciate the work you (and the team) are putting into this product - which makes my work a little bit easier :)

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                      • Gkikas LGPZ
                        Gkikas LGPZ Moderator @marekd last edited by

                        @marekd
                        On VFR, the gray shades are R.H., OK.
                        What is the lower limit of the shaded area? 50% ? 90% ?
                        The shades are every 10% ?

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                          stitch Meteorologist | Premium last edited by

                          Hi @marekd ,

                          could you check the "Freezing Level" line/trace in the cross-section display for the correct plotted height?

                          I have attached a screen shot (below) showing the EC forecast freezing height at Cootamundra (see picker) as 3000ft.
                          The cross-section freezing height line is up near the 2000m/6000ft level at the same point. The height of the topography is ~420m.

                          It doesn't look right????

                          ![alt text](15aebdf3-524e-4e7a-9b0e-a8f4e34cc11a-image.png

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                            leerunge | Premium last edited by

                            Hi, First off thanks so much for the hard work on Windy, it's my favorite weather app/site and I'm always recommending it to friends!

                            Would it be possible to import .kml or even better google maps routes (or something similar) for long distance road trips to get the wx along the route? The point by point works but it would be far easier to just import based off a currently planned route from a .gpx or .kml.

                            Thanks!

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                            • Lalalaralyn
                              Lalalaralyn last edited by Lalalaralyn

                              Does this mean you can plot out an ideal path based on weather criteria? Because I've been using the app to find the coolest place to camp each night as I make way through the desert, and it's pretty tedious. Can I now say, "this is my destination" and "find the relative coolest point along the route" (taking into consideration the temperature at 10pm, and also at 10am the next day)? That would be rad if I can do that!

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                              • Lalalaralyn
                                Lalalaralyn @marekd last edited by

                                @marekd How do I use this? I don't see "distance & planning" anywhere in the menus...

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                                • Spirare
                                  Spirare | Premium last edited by

                                  Great job...however I could not find how to set distance in nautical miles (NM) for boats !?!

                                  Sergio

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                                  • siim
                                    siim @Gkikas LGPZ last edited by

                                    @Spirare

                                    @Gkikas-LGPZ said in Windy launches Route Planner:

                                    d78795c7-300f-4dbb-bd5e-e708fe2a5900-εικόνα.png

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                                    • Spirare
                                      Spirare | Premium last edited by

                                      Got it !
                                      Great, I like this new feature a lot...used it to plan our passage across the Tasman Sea from Hobart - Australia to Nelson New Zealand last May.
                                      Regards,

                                      Sergio

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                                      • bobbymcd
                                        bobbymcd | Premium last edited by

                                        How can we modify Boat's speed/Sailpolars ?

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                                        • marekd
                                          marekd Administrator @Gkikas LGPZ last edited by

                                          @Gkikas-LGPZ It is not so easy. It depends on values around, on geopotential height, on the decrease in value with height and more... But here is a picture with imprinted values. Hope it is what you need :-)

                                          Screenshot 2019-08-08 at 17.32.25.jpg

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                                          • Gkikas LGPZ
                                            Gkikas LGPZ Moderator @marekd last edited by Gkikas LGPZ

                                            @marekd
                                            Thank you.

                                            I thought it is something like this (where the green shades depict R.H >70%)
                                            472b8926-6f2b-4524-b7c6-56260a338b23-εικόνα.png

                                            In Windy's VFR route planner the grey shades seem to stand for R.H. aprox. >90%

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