Windy Community

    • Register
    • Login
    • Search
    • Unread
    • Categories
    • Groups
    • Go to windy.com
    1. Home
    2. emccarthy556
    E
    • Profile
    • Following 0
    • Followers 0
    • Topics 2
    • Posts 3
    • Best 1
    • Controversial 0
    • Groups 0

    emccarthy556

    @emccarthy556

    2
    Reputation
    1
    Profile views
    3
    Posts
    0
    Followers
    0
    Following
    Joined Last Online

    emccarthy556 Unfollow Follow

    Best posts made by emccarthy556

    • Improved sounding charts

      It would be great to improve the sounding chart to look something like this:
      The graph lines and axis labels are really helpful.

      www.soaringpredictor.info/rasptable/ShowSounding.html?region=N_SCAL,prev=N,sound_no=1,curr=0,site=Blackhawk,stime=1300,d2w2=d2

      Capture.JPG

      posted in Your Feedback and Suggestions
      E
      emccarthy556

    Latest posts made by emccarthy556

    • Improved sounding charts

      It would be great to improve the sounding chart to look something like this:
      The graph lines and axis labels are really helpful.

      www.soaringpredictor.info/rasptable/ShowSounding.html?region=N_SCAL,prev=N,sound_no=1,curr=0,site=Blackhawk,stime=1300,d2w2=d2

      Capture.JPG

      posted in Your Feedback and Suggestions
      E
      emccarthy556
    • RE: Windy.com introduces soaring forecast

      Thank you for adding this feature, I love it.
      I am wondering what the difference is between this forecast and the NOAA forecast is. It would be great to make it easy to see what the definition of your number is.
      For example today in Hemet California the NOAA forecast is 11,010 for the max... and in yours it is 14,300 ft.
      Lake Elsinore California is closer with 7800ft vs 8450 ft
      https://www.wrh.noaa.gov/sgx/data/aviation/soar.htm
      Is this a definition issue or a calculation / data difference ?

      possible Improvements and additions:

      • A slight addition would be to add an adjustment for "critical updraft strength" given a selectable sink rate for a glider. For example a glider minimum sink rate of 225fpm.
      • Thermal updraft velocity would be nice as well.
      • Finer resolution where possible

      Here is a site that shows these:
      http://www.soaringpredictor.info/rasptable/RASPtable.html
      Note that the actual height in this site might be under reported. I have some personal experience that this may be the case.

      posted in Announcements
      E
      emccarthy556