Brilliant, thank you so much!

Did you find a bug? Please let us know!

I use feet in settings, but the sounding tool displays the altitude in metres with the suffix "ft". Correct altitude in feet would be great.

Sure, no-one likes price increases / service reductions, just a shame that more people don't wish to support the awesome work that the Windy team does.

Hi,

Great addition to a fantastic tool. Your commitment to soaring inspired me to sign up to Premium.

In theory "cloud base", "cloud tops", "height of thermals" and the map of blue/Cu/OD areas already cover the essentials perfectly.

But the problem is the accuracy. Sometimes the "height of thermals" is below the "cloud base", sometimes it is higher than the "cloud tops"! And then the soundings often appear to be different again.

It would be useful to have more info on what "height of thermals" is supposed to signify. Is it the tops of thermals (TI=0 / PBL height etc), top of useable lift (HCrit etc), or some kind of custom parameter similar to a "star rating" / "PFD"?

I've tried most of the soaring forecasts and still use some. For the UK, the specialist forecasts are often no more accurate than looking carefully at the general weather forecasts and observations and doing a simple estimation of cloudbase from the temp/dew point spread.

So my hope would be improved accuracy of what already exists, rather than more and more different ways to view inaccurate data.

Got my fingers crossed for this one!

Meteoblue recently added UKMO2 and 10k models to their maps, having this data within Windy would be awesome!

@Korina I just noticed this — fantastic work, thank you!
The 2km model is perfect

Hi @Korina and team,

It's fantastic you introduced the UKV model, but there seems to be an error in the thermal map. Somehow, particularly earlier in the day, there's a lot of grey indicating zero thermals whereas other models (and indeed the UKV soundings) suggest thermals.

I've noticed this on several days, but as an example please see the screenshots below of tomorrow's forecast @1300.

UKV

ECMWF

GFS

ICONEU

Sure, no-one likes price increases / service reductions, just a shame that more people don't wish to support the awesome work that the Windy team does.

@Korina I just noticed this — fantastic work, thank you!
The 2km model is perfect

Got my fingers crossed for this one!

Meteoblue recently added UKMO2 and 10k models to their maps, having this data within Windy would be awesome!

Did you find a bug? Please let us know!

I use feet in settings, but the sounding tool displays the altitude in metres with the suffix "ft". Correct altitude in feet would be great.

Brilliant, thank you so much!

Hi,

Great addition to a fantastic tool. Your commitment to soaring inspired me to sign up to Premium.

In theory "cloud base", "cloud tops", "height of thermals" and the map of blue/Cu/OD areas already cover the essentials perfectly.

But the problem is the accuracy. Sometimes the "height of thermals" is below the "cloud base", sometimes it is higher than the "cloud tops"! And then the soundings often appear to be different again.

It would be useful to have more info on what "height of thermals" is supposed to signify. Is it the tops of thermals (TI=0 / PBL height etc), top of useable lift (HCrit etc), or some kind of custom parameter similar to a "star rating" / "PFD"?

I've tried most of the soaring forecasts and still use some. For the UK, the specialist forecasts are often no more accurate than looking carefully at the general weather forecasts and observations and doing a simple estimation of cloudbase from the temp/dew point spread.

So my hope would be improved accuracy of what already exists, rather than more and more different ways to view inaccurate data.