Hurricane Tracker is great. I suggest:
Cruising on a 35' sailboat in the SW Pacific, ECMWF is my go-to model. When GFS upgraded, I began compare the two regularly. Very useful in the 5-7 day windows. Even before that upgrade, I would use the compare feature when planning departure windows for ocean passages. Also, the Waves feature is very useful for sailors, most especially comparing wind base to wind gusts - indicating the volatility of the weather system, in addition to the more detailed wave info. Swell period under 9 seconds is very uncomfortable. Thanks for a great Windy!
@petra-pik Yes. That did work. Thank you.
@petra-pik I wholeheartedly support options to toggle on-off video and/or photo images, like highway cameras, to save data downloads over preciously expensive, finite, and often shaky internet connections. I use Windy extensively for voyage planning by sail, often from locations where internet is not yet first-world hi-bandwidth.
New favorite is not a named place. I selected and saved using Latitude and Longitude. So far, so good. I then edit to name the favorite: N Minerva Reef. The named favorite shows up when in the edits list, but not on the main menu 'quick pick' list. Only the lat-lon shows up there.
Is it possible to have the home page quick list of favorites match the edited names?
Favorites as named:
Favorites on Quick List
Excellent. I don't mind the zoom restrictions for now. I find 3D is most informative viewing wide scale phenomena, e.g. polar centered view of 500 hPa with geopotential height graphics. A great visualization of Rossby waves.
I continue to appreciate this tool. It is proving to be very useful for visualizing weather along a sailing passage. It would be very cool if the weather detail bar as shown in the distance planner were also available for kml, gpz, GeoSON routes.
As more routes are added, and I predict there will be thousands as others discover it, a search tool would be very helpful. Maybe search or filter uploaded routes by user? Or by those routes applicable to the current screen view, i.e. take the lat/lon rectangle from the screen corners and filter for the uploaded routes which intersect that rectangle.
Thank you.
Expert mode seems to not be saving to my profile. I must turn it on each time I open Windy.
Very good. A great addition to the distance planner.
As a sailor, I would prefer wind direction to default to absolute, or north up. But not a priority, once I know how to make setting.
I like the default forecast all along the route defined for one specific moment that I choose on timeline. Moving forecast along the route depends on accurate guess of vmg, which of course changes with wind speed and sea state and accurate boat polars. Very complex and maybe best left to weather routing apps such as Predictwind and qtvlm.
@Francfo Check out qtvlm, open source weather router. You can save grib file scenarios, run alternative routings, and save them all.
User @pavelneuman shared kml file with you Hurricane Dorian (The NHC's Adv. #29)
This is great.
Please continue this overlay of NHC track and forecast cone. Can it be automated for all named storms, hurricanes and cyclones? It really helps me understand and visualize the storm, especially when other layers are turned on, such as wind accumulation.
Very good. I've been waiting for a way to save and load routes from the distance and planning tool, and/or other gpx routes.
For next rev. take a look at 180 Meridian and routes that cross it. Please see...
NZ-Fiji Test: https://www.windy.com/upload/5cf03b53057dc20012322c26
Thank you
Please consider adding a bolded line at 5640 meter geopotential height on the 5000 hPa (mb) charts. This line is important for marine navigation and weather routing because most storms track 300 to 600 nautical miles north or south (towards the poles) of this line. See: https://vos.noaa.gov/MWL/dec_08/milibar_chart.shtml
ECMWF model has not updated for ~17 hours, as of 12:45 pm 10 July, New Zealand standard time.
Okay, now I can see data for NZ stations in the right hand side bar. I don't see the "E" or "F" symbols for Ebb or Flood current at that station. I don't see the up or down arrows for high or low tides at that station. I see the boat icons only. I do see the symbols at stations along the US west coast, e.g. Columbia River entrance. Thank you.
Great Idea. As of March 3, I see lots of little boat icons that correspond with NZ tide stations.
But I see no data when I click on any particular tide station: no tide table, no harmonic graph, and no current info either.
Boat icon is the same as was used for currents. Will these now be displayed together? Or are currents to be abandonded?
In Whangarei NZ.
Re: 500mbar level
TZ, thanks for the reply 9 Jun.
On a 'traditional' 500 mbar weather chart, the values are heights (altitude) showing isohypse lines at 500mbar. That is, the whole chart is at 500 mbar. Is this also true for the way that Windy displays the geopotential layer at 500 hPa? Is this true for other geopotential heights displayed by Windy, above surface? Is there any plan to add isohypse lines. The recent addition of isobars for surface pressure is great.
Is it possible to name and save routes in the Distance and Planning tool?
Great addition! I've been wanting this for a long time.
It seems that the isolines (previously known as isobars?) are sometimes 4 hPa, or sometimes 2 hPa, apart? If so, why the departure from standard meteorological practice? Label each line, or change the line style for the intermediate step 2 hPa lines. Line labels are a bit small and, some numerals mush in this font and size; e.g. 0, 6, and 8 are hard to distinguish.
Re: "Great new feature! It would be perfect with Isohypse lines as well (e.g. 850 / 500 / 300 hPa)." That would be a different plot. Very useful, but maybe best presented as a different layer. I would welcome that layer.
As to why, asked by "F": While the color gradations are quite good, the isolines add a great deal in understanding the pattern of the pressure. And especially change over days. For example, it's much easier to see cutoff lows (fully encircled), rather than low dips that appear like appendices, with the isolines than in the colors. This helps understand if there is risk of that low dissipating or strengthening. Also, tightly compacted isobars (lines) mean more wind. Looking over a smaller scale, say planning for an ocean crossing, it's easier to see and understand than differences in graticules.
Thanks!
