Still waiting for total precipitable water.
Posts made by mark.ingalls
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RE: Windy's Version 41 is here and brings new features!
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RE: New UI is a really bad idea
There's always complaints about new UI everywhere throughout all websites, programs, and applications. The truth is the new UI works just fine, is intelligent, and is but a minor inconvienence to get used to.
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RE: Your map uploads
2024 Eclipse (totality)
https://www.windy.com/upload/65fd63dccc3b4986f89df911
Upload your own KML, GPX, GeoJSON file at https://www.windy.com/uploader
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RE: Your map uploads
2024 Eclipse (centerline)
https://www.windy.com/upload/65fd6385cc3b4986f89df910
Upload your own KML, GPX, GeoJSON file at https://www.windy.com/uploader
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RE: ECMWF releases a much larger open dataset - AIFS
@anthony10 AI modeling is an interesting and exciting step forward. This is likely a major part of the future of weather modeling and the ECMWF AIFS is showing decent results. Unfortunately it seems that while in some ways it is superior to the deterministic model, there are still systemic issues with AI model outputs. I recently attended the AMS conference and sat in on several talks about AI modeling. The biggest problem right now is the output often comes out blurry, so that interpreting isolines on various parameters can be difficult and/or inaccurate. I'm sure this problem will be overcome eventually.
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Total precipitable water
The new updates are, as always, great and add a lot of value to Windy. I'm once again asking you to add total precipitable water as one of the parameters offered for display. It's a great way to visualize moisture plumes and whatnot, such as this one later this week where moisture sourced from the Caribbean will be bringing rain to Norway and the United Kingdom.
This sort of thing is critical for severe weather and atmospheric river forecasting and the current humidity and precipitation parameters don't capture it as well as total precipitable water does.
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RE: HRRR not available on iOS widgets
@stephenm00 I'm sure it's not included because it isn't a global model, but it would be nice if one of the options could be "best resolution" based on what model domains you're located in so that in the US it selected the HRRR, France sets it to AROME, etc. but when you aren't in one of the higher resolution regions (or you have the five day widget and the time period goes beyond the time period of the high resolution model) it defaults to ECMWF.
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Request: Separate color tables for temperature, dew point, and sea surface temperature
Hello all,
Right now, when I edit the temperature color table, this pattern is applied to temperature, dew point, and sea surface temperatures. It would be nice if I could set separate color tables for these three parameters because the visualization and scale of these are quite different.
With dew point, for example, I would like to be able to create a scale of brown to green because it is an indicator of atmospheric moisture whereas with sea surface temperatures I would do a smilar color scale to air temperature but with a range of -2C to +35C instead of the much wider range we see with air temperatures.
Additionally, it would still be incredibly useful to have the total precipitable water parameter added to create visualizations of moisture flow at all layers of the atmosphere at once - recent examples where this would be useful is the flooding in South Korea and the US Northeast.
Thanks for having and maintaining this powerful tool!
Mark
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RE: Suggestions for future product development
@Ondřej-Šutera Adding my support for these, especially 1 and 3. Vorticity is also useful in wind energy forecasting to predict periods of volatility.
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RE: Feature request: Accumulated rain for past 48 h
@JPletzer I wonder if there is an accurate global dataset for this that is available in a reasonable timeframe and doesn't cost an arm and a leg. There may not be currently, but including it for individual stations may be a reasonable alternative if something reasonable isn't avaliable.
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RE: Sea temperature anomaly displayed
@Ondřej-Šutera I like this idea. It would be useful for looking at ENSO (el nino/la nina) and to help contextualize large marine die offs due to anomalous SSTs.
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RE: Suggestion: split screen to display 2 layers side by side
@Ondřej-Šutera Adding my voice that I think this would be awesome.
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Automatic update
Hello,
When you are looking at a forecast parameter (wind, for example), the current observations will update and the model data itself will update, but it would be nice if the timestamp could move forward with time if you have the current time selected.
For example, if I have 19:00 selected as the forecast hour for wind, the wind map will stay at 19:00 instead of moving forward to 20:00, 21:00, etc. as we get later into the evening. Is it possible to have this as an option (perhaps "present" hour)? As it is now, without me updating it myself it will stay at 19:00 for the rest of the day. It would be very useful to be able to have the map/model data automatically show the current hour on forecasting shifts at work.
Also a shameless plug for you guys to add total precipitable water.
Thanks!
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RE: [CLOSED] v39.0.0
@marekd Thank you for continuously improving the service! Was hoping to see some new parameters make it into the display (cough cough total precipitable water). Does the new mobile/tablet interface include the 3D globe display as an option?
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RE: Previsión del Tiempo (NO de Clima)
@Ondřej-Šutera I think they are referring to the term used for "weather forecast" in the Spanish version. Some Spanish speakers use "tiempo" to refer to weather, while others use "clima." The latter is probably more slang, as the proper translation for clima is climate, but in my part of the world they use clima to refer to weather because tiempo can be time, temperature, and weather depending on the context.
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RE: Previsión del Tiempo (NO de Clima)
@Esteban-Martín-Zs En algunos lugares, sobre los Estados Unidos y partes de Mexico, la palabra mayor es clima. En otros, les usan la palabra tiempo.
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RE: Including total precipitable water layer
@Ondřej-Šutera Adding my support for total precipitable water. I would find this to be incredibly useful.
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NOAA planning to sunset HRRR and NAM in favor of new model
Hello WIndy team! NOAA is planning on launching a new weather model (RRFS) to replace both the HRRR and NAM late 2023. It is operating provisionally so far with a domain that covers the dame domain as the HRRR, but once it is operational the domain is expected to cover all of North America.
Is Windy planning on switching mesoscale modeling in North America from the HRRR and NAM, which will likely be sunset after the RRFS launches, to this new model? I am hoping so. This would also be a win for Canadian, Latin American, and Caribbean users.
Details: https://gsl.noaa.gov/focus-areas/unified_forecast_system/rrfs and https://dtcenter.org/sites/default/files/events/2021/23-carley-rrfs-overview-srw-app-training.pdf