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    • RE: Windy.com introduces soaring forecast

      @Korina HI Corina.
      As a Glider and Hang Glider pilot I like the idea. So far though not proving too useful. Cloud base is not that useful on it's own , the speed of convection (m/s vertical) is more important as when this drops to less than the glider sink rate you stop going up! Have a look at how RASP (https://rasp.stratus.org.uk/index.php/rasptable-desktop) works, in particular the "Star Rating" and the "Thermaling height" .

      Nice to see this type of feature arriving on Windy!

      Thanks

      posted in Announcements
      AberhangieA
      Aberhangie
    • RE: Windy.com introduces soaring forecast

      Love the idea but (I fly Gliders and Hang Gliders) but the implementation is not great. It looks more like a plot of cloud cover and not clear what the numbers mean. There are 3 things which would be useful on this plot

      • Height of convection (Ft ASL/AGL)

      • best expected strength of convection (Ft/min)

      • Shear/Buoyancy ratio

      That would be useful. If you want to see what good looks like have a look at the RASP forecast website.

      Nice site overall through, I use it all the time for general forecasts and love the Site Alerts.

      Thanks

      posted in Announcements
      AberhangieA
      Aberhangie