Hello everyone!

Important disclaimer: I am a photographer, not a meteorologist.

Despite this, I wrote an article on my blog to share how I use Windy.com to plan my landscape photography activities, hoping it might be helpful to someone else. The disclaimer is related to the fact that there may certainly be technical inaccuracies and jargon mistakes, but I hope it is still understandable and useful.

Here is the link: https://www.francescogola.net/tutorial/how-to-use-windy-com-for-landscape-photography/

If anyone has comments, suggestions, or corrections, I would be more than happy to hear them!

Thank you.

Leraned in the hard way, so I share the info that hopefully will help somebody else.

The column was due to the standard setting of desktopUI: 'rhpane' in pluginConfig.ts
Moving it to 'embedded' fixed the issue

Hello!
I'm using this fantastic application for photography.

One very useful feature for us would be to know where the apparent horizon is on the map based on our location.

It would involve adding an "Horizon" option in the "Display on map" section that, when activated, shows a circle indicating the apparent horizon calculated based on our GPS location (and possibly altitude derived from the map?). This would allow us to determine if the horizon will be obstructed by clouds at sunrise and sunset.

Ideally, this horizon would be calculated for four points: 1) our position 2) base of low clouds 3) base of mid-level clouds 4) base of high clouds.

I hope (in fact, we hope!) that this feature can be taken into consideration!

Thank you.

@Filip_K Thank you very much!!

Hi!
Here my plugin:

Clouds Horizon Distance
https://windy-plugins.com/1029116/windy-plugin-horizon-distance/0.5.1/plugin.min.js

Info about the plugin here:
https://github.com/chiotas/clouds-horizon-distance/blob/main/README.md

If you will publish it, what's the process to submit the updates?
Thank you!

@aquarium-0 I would love to have it! 73! IU2PJU

Hello @David-Ryzec-3 !
Is it possible to have my plugin listed too? Thanks 🙏🙏

@aquarium-0 I would love to have it! 73! IU2PJU

Hi @RonanR!
Oh, you’re right, the link was not working 😨
Now it’s should be fixed!
Thanks!

@r1666a may I ask you the app name?

Hi!
Here my plugin:

Clouds Horizon Distance
https://windy-plugins.com/1029116/windy-plugin-horizon-distance/0.5.1/plugin.min.js

Info about the plugin here:
https://github.com/chiotas/clouds-horizon-distance/blob/main/README.md

If you will publish it, what's the process to submit the updates?
Thank you!

Leraned in the hard way, so I share the info that hopefully will help somebody else.

The column was due to the standard setting of desktopUI: 'rhpane' in pluginConfig.ts
Moving it to 'embedded' fixed the issue

Hello,

Is getting a grey column on the right side while in Dev mode normal, or is it my fault?

Thanks!

@idefix37 said in (Tutorial) How to Use Windy.com for Landscape Photography:

You said that on Windy the tides are only given “with few available buoys”. I don’t understand what you mean. There are weather buoys in Windy same as there are weather stations.

This will be definitely fixed in the article, I was unaware of the worldwide model!

Thank you!

Hello @idefix37 and thanks for your reply!

Yes, I suppose we're talking about the same visualization(please let me know if there is any other view right now).
From a photographic point of view, this kind of view is quite limited due the following factors:

• Accuracy: as you said, a general tide model probably is not super accurate near the coastline, and that's where we need the info as we take pictures from there. With apps like Nautide or Tide Planner I can check on the map and pick the tide gauge I want and so I hope it's more accurate

• Possibility to scroll the timeline reading: for us, it's not just important to know the time for the high and low tide, but it's important to get all the intermediate readings, so in other words, for a specific time of the day (example: at sunrise or at sunset).

• Planning: in Windy I can get the tide forecast for the next few days. With the mentioned app and the paid licence, I can get the forecast for the next 12+ months. This is essential for us as we (I) plan trips really according to the tide. For example, I may need to find now (Aug 2024) a week where I have almost high tide both at sunrise and sunset in a specific location (example: near a lighthouse) and with the mentioned apps I can do that already for October 2025. I know that there is a certain grade of inaccuracy in such an amount of time, but it works incredibly well to pick at least the right week and the right coefficient.

• Coefficient: it's also important for us to understand the tide coefficient because, as you know, "high tide" is not a constant value, and it could change significantly.

Here a few of screenshots of the information I can get

I absolutely understand that it's probably over complicated to implement something like that in Windy, and I honestly I can't even figure out in my mind a specific layer for that

Hello everyone!

Important disclaimer: I am a photographer, not a meteorologist.

Despite this, I wrote an article on my blog to share how I use Windy.com to plan my landscape photography activities, hoping it might be helpful to someone else. The disclaimer is related to the fact that there may certainly be technical inaccuracies and jargon mistakes, but I hope it is still understandable and useful.

Here is the link: https://www.francescogola.net/tutorial/how-to-use-windy-com-for-landscape-photography/

If anyone has comments, suggestions, or corrections, I would be more than happy to hear them!

Thank you.