Posts made by mark.ingalls

@idefix37 No, it isn't normal here (or anywhere that I know of).

I would rather not see isobars bolded unless it's every 20 hPa (980, 1000, 1020, etc.), but personally I like it how it is and think that if you bold one specific isobar then you'll get people coming in asking for important isobars to them to also be bolded creating a big mess.

Hello!

I recently discovered the new satellite widget for iOS and thought this would be a great Apple Watch background if such a thing is possible with how much freedom Apple gives you guys with what you can do on the watches. I envision having the satellite image as a background with the time in the top right corner.

Also a renewed recommendation to add the total precipitable water parameter. The wet season is here for my part of the world and having TPW would be incredibly useful for forecasting. As always, you guys are doing great with this app! It is becoming a one stop shop for quick forecast tools on the go.

Thanks,
Mark

@Annual-Salvador-Rally The colors represent the strength of the parameter (wind, waves, etc.) same as on the map.

@Balloonboy7 Most weather models only produce up to hourly resolution. Some mesoscale (regional) models, such as the HRRR, have a few parameters at 15 minutes, but not many.

@tomsadlowski Last I heard (from the RadarScope developers), CarPlay is by invitation from Apple only. If this is still the case I wouldn’t count on it anytime soon.

@Korina The solar radiation value is an especially helpful resource for me. Me and some of the meteorologists I work with have already started using it to forecast solar energy at our assets. Thanks!

@korina I would also find this helpful. Like @sparky1290 mentioned it being AGL makes the freezing level hard to interpret in mountain areas, especially since model resolution doesn't handle mountainous areas very well.

Hello!

Long time user here. I love seeing the frequent upgrades to this service. I would greatly enjoy if Total Precipitable Water were added as an available parameter to look at. Where I live and forecast, this is a critical tool in predicting the strength and timing of atmospheric river and other rainfall events.

Attached is a TPW display from WeatherBell for the ECMWF. Of particular interest in this one is the moisture plume aiming at SE Alaska. This display helps to pick out the source region of moisture, which is also useful for predicting temperatures and precipitation type.

Thanks for having this awesome service!
Mark

@midtoad There may be a dataset that Windy could pull (perhaps from NOAA) that includes fronts, but the model data doesn't draw fronts. In most instances they are added by a human meteorologist as part of an analysis.

Personally, if fronts are added I would like them being displayed to be optional on the isobar map. As a meteorologist I prefer to do the analyis/interpretation myself.

There are many people who use Windy who have outdoor thermometers but don't have a way to get those observations online for various reasons. I was thinking that it could be cool to have a spot for registered users to manually enter temperature observations to be added to the map when current temperatures are selected on the display for 30 minutes or so after the report is made. This could be done using a simple form in the app or website and using the device's current location to get the location for the report.

It could also be made so that observations made by the same user within 5 km and 30 minutes of a previous one would just update that one (that way there aren't a bunch in the same place), while observations outside that 5 km would show a new one on the map. An example of this could be if I made an observation at home and then down the street a few minutes later, the latter would replace the former on the map, but if I made an observation at home and then another outside of town, they would both show as different reports for 30 minutes after the report is made.

Obviously some people would submit false reports for various reasons. With the other data on Windy, other users should be able to easily recognize these. If someone is making false reports routinely, they could be blocked from accessing this feature.

Hi all! The weather warnings section of the map formats Winter Storm Watches and Warnings as thunderstorm alerts rather than as snow alerts. I attempted to add a screenshot here, but the file was too large. The example I was going to use is the Winter Storm Warning in effect in Montana.

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I recently learned about mixing ratios and I thought they would be a helpful addition to the app (assuming the models support that parameter). Would love to know if you guys had any plans to add it. Thanks!

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