Great to see Windy implementing the major meteorological service updates so promptly and thoughtfully. With more and more free weather data, Windy stays ahead of the pack thanks to the commercial European model and the great user interface.
I would love to see Windy introduce probabilistic forecasts based on the ECMWF Ensembles. Going out to 14 days needs some way of showing the confidence level in the forecasts / spread amongst Ensemble members. I tend to use the ECMWF site itself for 7+ days.
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.
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.