Agronomist (Ret.), born in the French Alps near the Swizz border. I love skiing, mountaineering, but my hobby is sailing on European coasts. Used to teaching marine meteorology in some yacht clubs.
@RichardFurry
Hi, apparently there is no chance that Windy provide data via satellite phone like Iridium:
https://community.windy.com/topic/6601/offline-use-of-windy
You may buy an Iridium phone to receive free GRIB files from weather models like GFS and some others, but not from Windy. There are several providers for such data.
@Gem2836
It’s probably difficult to avoid smoke on the east coast at the moment.
First locate the wildfires with the Active fires map. This is not a prediction, just an observation (every 24h) and it shows the wind direction if Particle animation is ticked:
Then switch to CO concentration. The carbon monoxide (CO) is a toxic gas produced by wildfires and it gives a good idea of the smoke extent near the ground. This layer gives a 3 days forecast:
On this map above you see the wind blowing from the sea along the coast and from southwest in the country side. So the smoke is probably not extending so much and moves vertically on the convergence line.
But if the wind direction changes some hours later, it may be difficult to find a place with fresh air :
On this map the Active fires are shown at same time as CO concentration.
You can look at PM2.5 layer too. These very fine particulates are also produced by wildfires (but it is not the only source).
It is useful to check also the Satellite view which gives good pictures sometime of current smoke plumes.
@carotheoret
It’s not possible to get windy.com via Iridium or Iridium Go. You need a broadband internet connection that Iridium cannot provide, nor the other satellite phones:
https://community.windy.com/topic/8225/forecasting-for-sailors
These satellite phones are low bandwidth devices which allow only to receive GRIB files for weather forecast in addition to calls, sms, email, but no normal internet connection. But Windy cannot deliver GRIB files:
https://community.windy.com/topic/6601/offline-use-of-windy
Do you plan long transoceanic passages or only 4 to 5 days offshore?
@mbalcerzyk
At maximum magnification the background map shows contour lines. You just need to zoom in.
@Gkikas-LGPZ
Your video is very demonstrative. No need for long speeches !
@pavelneuman
@Gkikas-LGPZ
Strong winds and heavy rain expected in Ireland, UK, France, Spain, at first, then in Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Italy and finally Greece. We are all linked by a strong Jet-Stream for this end of week.
Winds at 300hPa - Customized colors
@tylliono
And where is the problem since Windy provides you with the possibility to display all units in imperial measurements?
Go to Settings and change them. In right high corner of your screen.
@Farqhuit
The fire intensity as shown by the Active fires map is not the thermal power of the fire itself but just its radiative thermal power measured by satellite.
See:
https://atmosphere.copernicus.eu/sites/default/files/2018-05/CAMS Global Fire Assimilation System (GFAS) data documentation.pdf
and specially in Chapter 7 GFAS maps:
... The map represents the thermal radiation measured from space-borne sensors and detected as coming from actively burning vegetation and other open fires. It is expressed as the daily average of the fire radiative power (FRP) observations made in 125 km grid cells and expressed in the units of [mW/m2]. The rate of release of thermal radiation by fire is believed to be related to the rate at which fuel is being consumed and smoke produced. Therefore, these daily average FRP areal intensity data are used in the global estimation of open vegetation fire trace gas and particulate emissions...
As the thermal radiation is expressed in mW/m2 (milliwatt per sq.m) it cannot be kW or GW per sq.m.
The map below shows a consistent scale with the scale used by Windy.
