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    TZ

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    Best posts made by TZ

    • Why is Wind speed in hurricanes so wrong?

      Question: Why reported wind speed of hurricane is much higher than value forecasted by Windy?

      Answer: Windy displays ECMWF or GFS global forecast model. Neither of them is capable to predict exact peak values.

      Reasons:

      1. Modeling: Numerical model computes grid that has finite resolution in both space and time (~10km in space horizontally, ~100-1000m vertically, ~1-6h in time). Peak values are smoothed, because of coarse grid resolution.
      2. Analysis of input data: Calculations are based on measurements. They come from stations, radars, satellites and other sensors. These sensors are not always reliable, so extremal measurements can be considered as errors during data assimilation and thrown away to avoid damaging the computation.

      Conclusions:

      1. Numerical models are not good at prediction of local extreme values and phenomena. Examples: tornadoes, convective storms, hails, single convective clouds, single orographic clouds, extreme wind speed in storms or hurricanes.
      2. Numerical models are good at prediction of averege and "smooth" values. Examples: average wind in last 3 hours, temperature, humidity, pressure field.
      posted in Frequently Asked Questions
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    • RE: Propose a NEW LAYER / FEATURE You'd like on Windy

      Altitude and coverage of convective clouds (cumuli) ...I will implement it one day :-) but if there are more people wanting this, please upvote!

      posted in Your Feedback and Suggestions
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    • RE: Premium subscribers will get premium support

      @triggernometry @auweatherwatcher @emilyyyZzz They are girls and we call them so. We use such naming in common language. We do not have anonymous helpdesk, but we have Kori and Petra ...and unlike Alexa or Siri, they are real ;-)

      posted in Announcements
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    • RE: And yes, we can...

      This topic seems to be explosive. I understand that many people are against
      "global warming religion", but think about it pragmatically.
      If we call "Warming" the situation when "climate is changing rapidly and it is caused by mankind",
      then there are 4 options:

      A. Warming is not true and we believe it is not true
      B. Warming is not true and we believe it is true
      C. Warming is true and we believe it is true
      D. Warming is true and we do not believe it is true

      If we want to do any action we should behave pragmatically, economically, rationally.
      Consider the damage control. There are 2 faults among these options: B. and D.
      If B. is our reality we may waste our energy and money uselessly and our children will laugh at us in future.
      If D. is our case, it means that we are borrowing our wealth from future generation, our children will hate us.
      From this point of view the "panic" about Warming is completely understandable.

      If we think about what is caused by humans: Daily weather is caused by humans. If you live in big city,
      the temperature, moisture, evaporation, albedo, everything is massively influenced by human and you can measure it.
      If you look at countryside from air, you can see that the terrain is completely changed by human. It also affects daily weather.
      People have power to change the landscape, to destroy or plant whole forests.
      Greenhouse hypothesis is about composition of atmosphere. I do not want to judge whether that hypothesis is true
      or false. But people are moving fossil fuel from land to atmosphere. That is fact. One day all fossil fuel
      will be moved from land to atmosphere, it will not magically disappear.
      50000kg of airliners fuel means exactly 50000kg of waste. It is taken from land and put to air circulation.

      Rising temperature is reality. Question is: Is it caused by our technical revolution? Nobody is sure, but there is correlation.
      Do not cry, do not panic, just think about A, B, C, D.

      posted in Articles
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    • RE: Despite premium subscription, ECMWF updated 10 hours ago...

      @MolnAir Hi, we are sorry, this was a fault on our server, not a problem on ECMWF side. We had difficulties with data importing, so there remained the old forecast. Everything is up and running now.
      On Premium subscriptions: we are trying to find a balance between keeping most of the features free and giving good added value to premium users. A year ago there were just donations (no added value for our contributors). This year we came up with better temporal resolution of the forecasts and it is likely that we will be adding more premium features or maybe shifting some existing features to premium to keep the product attractive for our subscribers. We are developing Windy for people and we are happy that a part of them (like you) is willing to pay for it. Thank you!

      posted in Your Feedback and Suggestions
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    • RE: Pressure isolines are here

      @meteo-GR Now it is accessible through the testing interface only, but is scheduled for release during this week.

      posted in Announcements
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    • RE: Maximum altitude of the thermal (Potential of height of the Thermal - Mixed Layer Height)

      @Alvarnegro Hi! Yes we are planning to add such features. Are you a paraglider?

      posted in Your Feedback and Suggestions
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    • RE: Windy offers Sounding Forecast

      @fx-eddh said in Windy offers Sounding Forecast:

      Stüve to Skew t-log p

      Yes, we are considering switching between these "coordinate systems".

      posted in Announcements
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    • RE: Default Forecast Model

      Hi Jeff,
      thank you for the feedback. It is not possible now.
      Maybe we will consider this in some future release.

      posted in Your Feedback and Suggestions
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    • RE: Airgram meaning

      @p1rate Hi! Symbols illustrate wind speed and direction.
      See this picture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_map#/media/File:Wind_barbs.gif
      How can this help you to prepare flight? It depends on what kind of flying you do (thermal flying / ridge flying) and on the terrain where you want to fly.

      posted in General Discussion
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    Latest posts made by TZ

    • RE: Radar In Singapore

      @wellistrilight Hi, we are working on it. I hope that fixes will be finished in thw following two days.

      posted in Your Feedback and Suggestions
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    • RE: NAM Alaskan Isobars

      @akwx @Korina Hi, we investigated it again and it is definitely a bug. Thank you for reporting.

      posted in Your Feedback and Suggestions
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    • RE: Problem in the base map.

      @Gkikas-LGPZ Hi, thank you for detailed report. I put this bug in our internal issue tracker for maps. We are not able to generate new maps "on-demand", but we will fix this in the next release of the base map along with some other bugs.

      posted in Bug Reports
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    • RE: Performance issue with point-forecast

      Data has been updated, performance is stable again. Closing the topic. We apologise for any inconvenience caused by the outage.

      posted in System Status
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    • RE: Performance issue with point-forecast

      We solved the performance issue, but we had to clear our data caches, so the most recent forecast will be delayed by approximately one hour.

      posted in System Status
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    • Performance issue with point-forecast

      We have been experiencing performace issues with point forecast during last hour. This may affect also widgets in mobile apps. Our team is working on this right now.

      posted in System Status
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    • RE: Premium subscribers will get premium support

      @triggernometry @auweatherwatcher @emilyyyZzz They are girls and we call them so. We use such naming in common language. We do not have anonymous helpdesk, but we have Kori and Petra ...and unlike Alexa or Siri, they are real ;-)

      posted in Announcements
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    • RE: Bad values in forecast detail

      @Weatherproblems @kk.sochan @hutch120 I am not able to replicate the problem now. Maybe these are some cached data. Do you still have problems with some certain locations or all locations? I mean when you click at some random places.

      posted in System Status
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    • RE: Bad values in forecast detail

      All data should be now fixed and up-to-date. We apologize again for the inconvenience.

      posted in System Status
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    • RE: For Windy IT: Where do you source your USA maps from?

      @mbtahoe OpenStreetMaps, it is global community project. Please see: https://www.openstreetmap.org/

      posted in Bug Reports
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