Posts made by fogmachine

@kbsali I like the update, but it's not quite what we're after. Is the source on github somewhere? I found only the version from the last edition.

@idefix37 thx - those posts suggest that it can be fixed in the plugin by breaking lines crossing the anti-meridian into two segments. Maybe @kbsali can look into that; but since this is relatively easy for lines but more difficult for other shapes perhaps @ivo has another idea.

With other packages I've been able to either change the longitude range from [-180, 180] to [0, 360] or extend the range (wrapping over the anti-meridian) to [-360, 360]. These eliminate the discontinuity at the anti-meridian but I don't know if Windy's API allow either of these methods.

Either regadata or windy is having trouble drawing the Squid routing across the anti-meridian. You're in good company - qtVLM, OpenCPN, and some of the routing sw onboard the current VG racers have also had problems here.

@kbsali With Firefox the report time is still not right in v1.2.4 - maybe it's due to

formattedDatetime = "".concat(reportDatetime.toLocaleTimeString(undefined, dtOptions));

which isn't converting from

timeZone: "Europe/Paris",

to UTC. With Safari it's note working at all, reporting "Invalid Date UTC" - this might be because I didn't allow windy location access.

@idefix37 What time zone are you in?

@kbsali this doesn't look right - it should be the 11:00 UTC ranking. Could it be applying my local timezone offset? I'm in UTC -8. Loaded regadata v1.2.3.

@kbsali Looking forward to combining routing to the plugin! I currently manually track racers in another app to generate routes, would be much better to get this from the race organizers who should have more accurate polars.

Seeing the VG organization make good use of Windy, especially the satellite overlay, in their official daily updates is awesome.

For the Jules Verne, the Gitana tracker has both boats and is updated hourly. Don't know if it's worth scraping the data. http://www.gitana-team.com/en/tracker.aspx

@ivo FleetBroadBand is a really expensive Inmarsat service for ship-board Internet while at sea. They probably have some sort of filtering (like an IP address white list) to keep seamen from running up the bill. Maybe he needs an IP range used by WindyTV to add to the white list.

I've been using the beta for a week and the more I use it the more I like it.

Here's an example of using the GFS PWAT field to plan a ski trip in California - after today's "Atmospheric River" event clears east, the weather people are talking about a "Mango Connection" for next week. Do they just make this stuff up? Anyhow, the PWAT field shows the moisture plume getting sucked towards Vancouver by a low off Seattle on Monday, but it gets redirected right towards my local hills near Lake Tahoe by Wednesday.

Monday:

Wednesday:

Knowing the plume source and it's shape tells me that I don't want to be there at the beginning of the storm because it's probably going to be raining - but as it mixes later with the cold air coming from Canada it's going to turn into another monster Tahoe dumpage fest.

@ivo my bad - confused w/ satellite imagery; meant the GFS 0.25 degree model.

QPF is Quantitative Precipitation Forecasts like what we get from http://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/qpf/qpf2.shtml - but since you already have rain/snow add an overlay of the PWAT field from the "entire atmosphere (considered as a single layer)" layer to give a good idea where/how much moisture is and what could happen if the model is off by a few degrees.

Very nice. Could you add:
(a) =/0 keyboard input for zoom in/out
(b) QPF overlay - very useful for planning skiing and sailing when Western US is subject to "atmospheric rivers" from Hawaii
(c) Maybe hi-res (4k) GFS when zoomed in, or is that too much data?