Airgram and stability of air
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Hi!
I am Marco from Portugal.
I dont know if it is here that I make my question but I will make it.Is there any way to see in airgram if the air is stable and may create horizontal clouds like stratus or nimbostratus and continuous rain or the air is unstable and make vertical clouds like cumulus and cumulimbus as known as thunderstorm clouds and make rain by showers.
I know if the vertical temperature gradient is low, the air is stable, if the gradient is high, the air is unstable. Can I see it in airgram? How? Is there any parameter or index that I can measure the stability of atmosfere? I wiew in another site a lifted index.I apreciate the answer to my question.
Greetings
Marco Pimenta
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Seems that the question as not been answered. I am looking for the same information.
By the way, I don't understand what the different colors mean in the airgram at the temperature view by altitude.
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The best way to study and forecast the stability of the air is to use the sounding, included in the app (use the picker at the location and open it to select sounding) or to use one of the 2 plugins available with the app, SkewT and Better sounding
Those soundings will give you a lot of details about the air : stability, clouds formation, type of clouds, levels, thunderstorms and many other very interesting features of the atmosphere. This is a very useful and important tool used to make weather forecast.
Look at the following article if you don’t know those soundings : https://community.windy.com/topic/13267/unlocking-the-upper-atmosphere-an-introduction-to-the-skewt/2?_=1602053265961
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@CoyoteZyves said in Airgram and stability of air:
By the way, I don't understand what the different colors mean in the airgram at the temperature view by altitude.
The colors are staggered according to the temperature values shown in white figures.
Altitude is expressed as pressure levels (500hPa is 500h)
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It would be nice to find a way to display the temperatures in a more readable way (sometime the wind indicator overlaps the temperature).
Info is there and this is fine but maybe Windy team could put also the temperature scale on the extreme left although altitude is there as well,... or keep the temperature always visible, not allowing that the wind indicator overlaps the temperature but rather the opposite. Just some suggestions -
