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One of the core reasons for windy is because of the Sounding plugin which is far superior to the soundings provided by windy. It consistently gets cloudbase and the thermal heights right which the windy thermal layer never does (at least in a way that is useful to me.

Getting rid of this is a disaster for all the paraglider pilots I know around the world. Please either replace your (relatively crap) sounding with the one that Victor created or re-enable to the sounding plugin and ideally please replace your height of thermals with Victor's code which is consistently accurate!

Gutted!

Just to put this in perspective...

Victor has a a buymeacoffee link he only enabled a week ago and has already had €1000 of coffees. This shows how appreciated his plugin was.

Please, please please re-enable this

Vic kindly messaged me on his buymeacoffee page and informed me that windy did communicate in advance and have come up with a good solution and also pointed out I should show some love to the windy team...
I use windy almost everyday and I love it. I am super sorry for growling, it was not nice and overall I am massively grateful that this amazing resource exists.
I do think it would be brilliant if windy would/could use the algorithm that Vic has developed for the thermal tops and I'd rather his plugin was the actual sounding option as almost everyone in paragliding uses it around the world.
Most of all, thank you to the team at Windy for giving us a product that is so good.

This is definitely better! I still find the simplicity of the sounding plugin easier, it is also nice on that that you can scroll on your mouse to see the evolution of the day and the zoom being just a button is better for me.
On the better sounding they also have the windspeed graph as well as the barbs and that is helpful for spotting shear layers and changes in the airmass.
An indicator on the graph that clearly shows the top of the boundary layer would be magical and if you could be find a way to indicate thermal strength that'd be even more amazing for paraglider/glider pilots.
Thank you

Please move it back to 5 days, it is the best and most accurate forecast for the uk and often quite different from the other forecasts. This allows planning weekends much easier.

The thermal layer is useful as a very broad overview, but it is too inaccurate to use meaningfully beyond 'the day looks interesting'.

The sounding plugin very accurately predicts cloudbase/top of climbs. If this layer could use the same algorithm as that, it would be brilliant.

On a related note, I find the new 'sounding' that is embedded in windy better than the old one, but again the sounding plugin is far simpler, more accurate (within the boundary layer).