I compared the forecasted and observed wind at some paragliding spots in Czechia. This was the result:
Raw data: https://pg.vrana.cz/meteo/
This matches my random observations. If IconEu and ECMWF disagrees then IconEu is usually right.
@ivo Tak už tam jsou i celosvětová data. Jednak prosím o přejmenování na „Paragliding takeoffs“. A jednak prosím o instrukce, jak postupovat pro integraci přímo do Windy.
Please remove my plugin Aladin wind (windy-plugin-aladin). The data source is gone and it's not probable that it will be back.
Please also remove the plugin Paragliding flyability (windy-plugin-pg) which is not mine. Its data source is also gone, https://pg-api.ovh/ is not even in the DNS anymore. This plugin didn't work for long periods in the past. I've contacted the author several times which always helped only for a short time.
ECMWF contains airData.header.modelElevation but the other models don't have it. There's only airData.header.elevation which is the real elevation of the place and it could be off by 500 meters or more from the average elevation of the triangle considered by the model (e.g. in mountains). This makes sounding unusable with these models because we know the ground temperature (temp-surface) but we don't know where the surface is. There's no header.modelElevation and data['gh-surface'] contains only null.
Can we please get modelElevation for the other models too? I believe it must be somewhere otherwise the *-surface values wouldn't make sense.
@ivo To by bylo skvělé, díky za nabídku. Seženu celosvětová data a dám vědět.
My plugin https://www.windy.com/plugins/windy-plugin-pg-mapa now also uses data from DHV and covers the whole Europe. Can you please change the title and the description?
Czechia and Slovakia -> Europe
paragliding-mapa.cz -> paragliding-mapa.cz and dhv.de (please link https://www.dhv.de/db3/gelaende/)
windy-plugin-aladin: Displays wind direction and speed in the picker according to the Aladin forecast in Czechia.
@rittels You are right. I didn't want some of my plugins to be listed in the gallery as they are not very useful for others. However, I just learned that it's possible to have an approved but unlisted plugin which is fine with me.
@marekd, thanks for the update. Backwards compatibility is sacred for me so I'm surprised that you break it just to change a name, especially if there are official docs and examples around. I can understand that this was an omission but I don't understand not reverting it once reported. Can you please at least keep both names? (I don't know if some kind of aliases are possible here.)
This seems to be renamed to @windy/@plugins/plugin-data-loader. Is this change permanent or is it a bug? If permanent then please fix the docs and examples but I'd suggest keeping the original name.
Thanks for the update and congrats on becoming a code contributor. Would it be possible to just prefill the form at URL https://www.windy.com/plugins/windy-plugin-unknown? I use some niche plugins which are not worth approving and this would allow loading them more easily.
@ivo, this stopped working today around 11:40:
“tinyrequire DI error: Can not resolve @plugins/windy-plugin-pg-mapa module Error: Tinyrequire error: Module "pluginDataLoader" does not exist!”
Also, would be possible to return the data in 1-hour resolution for premium users?
There's a one hour shift between the wind forecast at the bottom of the page and the wind markers on the map. This is an example:
Note that the time selected is 10:00 which e.g. ICON forecasts as 2 G:5 from south yet the marker says 3 G:8 from south-west which is the forecast for 11:00.
I can consistently reproduce this both on desktop and on mobile.
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I've created a poor man solution to load the plugins I always use with a bookmarklet. Create a browser bookmark with this URL (strip the newlines if need to but e.g. Chrome does that automatically, keep javascript:):
javascript:
function loadPlugin(id) {
document.querySelector('[href="#load"]').click();
setTimeout(() => {
const input = document.querySelector('[placeholder="Example: windy-plugin-hello-world"]');
input.value = id;
input.dispatchEvent(new InputEvent('input'));
input.nextElementSibling.children[1].click();
});
}
loadPlugin('windy-plugin-pg-mapa');
setTimeout(() => {
W.broadcast.fire('rqstOpen', 'plugins');
setTimeout(() => loadPlugin('windy-plugin-flymet'));
}, 3000);
Then open https://www.windy.com/plugins and click this bookmark. It will open the plugins I use.
Thanks for the replies. This was the problem: I've had the 1h forecast checkbox checked so it seemed like everything should work:
However when I clicked on it, it asked me to buy Windy Premium (which I already bought). I tried to restore my purchases and found two orders in FastSpring: one free (try-out period) and one paid. I've entered the order reference from the paid one but Windy said it's not valid. I've entered the free one and now everything works.
What's interesting is that the forecast was displayed by one hour:
Only the keyboard shortcuts were broken.
I have Windy Premium. Initially, it was possible to skip with left arrow and right arrow keyboard shortcuts by an hour which was great for my use case. Now it skips by 3 hours (same as free version). I am able to skip by an hour in the timeline, this post is only about the keyboard shortcuts.
If you changed the behavior based on some user feedback, can you please add a setting for this?
windy-plugin-flymet: Displays layers useful for glider pilots from FLYMET in Czechia.
Then it's even more confusing because if I select NEMS model then it displays “NEMS4 model by meteoblue” watermark. It also doesn't explain why NEMS is not in the wind comparison but Meteoblue is.