Meh-eh-eh! Meh-eh-eh! Meh-eh-eh!
FYI, NCEP/NOAA outages are generally announced here in real time: https://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/status/messages/.
A priori some internet fiber was cut at Boulder and model download web site was completly unavailable between 0937Z FRI AUG 27 2021 and 1801Z FRI AUG 27 2021.
OSCAR is not only full of stations: above all, it is the single, official reference for all ALL WMO/WIGOS observing stations...
WMO observing network contains both ships (voluntary observing ships or part of GTS network) and buoy stations.
Some met offices even use drones, turtles, whales, etc. as support for ocean weather sensors...
Buoys are generally static, ships are generally moving; both of them should have a series of standard weather sensors defined by WMO and provide messages of type SHIP or BUOY (which are extensions to the more generic SYNOP mesages). Ogimet web site (for example) provides part of them here (screenshot below).
WMO/GTS naming rules of all ocean observing stations are defined here.
I guess the required info (and much more) is already provided on UI, via the Info control, for currently selected model:
@bobluck said in Option to set default view.:
Can’t I just set a preferred view and have it saved?
Yep, I think such a new feature, i.e. kind of option "keep currently enabled data overlays on next user sessions" (and why not current map coverage, too?), would be welcome for many use cases. At least for users who often use same data layers and/or map coverage...
This discussion (as well as many other community discussions, e.g. this one), makes me thinking that adding a collection of 3rd party, pertinent URLs to Windy UI would be really helpful to many users (and to Windy, too).
Of course such a 3rd party web sites are not intended to replace, nor to compete with Windy.com.
A good sample is the link provided in comment just above, which is for a web site specialized in dust forecast, provided by a research laboratory.
Windy.com has not the required resources to (and should not) compete with big research laboratories (e.g. official WMO product providers), but could advantageously provide such a pertinent list to its users; I guess everybody would win...
Such a pertinent URLs list may be pretty long, thus items may be grouped by category (e.g. "Weather Alerts", "LRF Models", "NWP Models Data Providers", "Local Forecasts Europe/NA/Asia/country/Etc)", "Satellite Imagery", etc.).
Its appearance may be also as discrete as needed (e.g. placed in the main Menu, just after Windy Plugins), in order to not change current look and feel of Windy UI.
Of course each URL link could and should have a full description (e.g. as OnMouseOver tooltip).
Btw., such a link to OSM Community web site could save a lot of time to both users and administrators and avoid all these long and boring posts about missing roads or wrong country names on Windy maps...
Moreover, as Windy has many occasional or permanent users and part of them are meteorologists, forecasters, pilots, I guess many of them would be happy to propose and share pertinent URLs which would be really helpful to users with less knowledge in these domains.
Btw., the community discussions already contain a pretty big collection of links to pertinent 3rd party web sites...
Even more useful would be to get isolines rendering option to all pertinent data layers (not only pressure), and also to be also able to configure isolines interval value (like for color shading palettes), for each parameter.
Only automatic weather stations refresh at such a frequency.
You can also use observations for closest METAR weather stations (every 30m).
For clouds you can use images from METEOSAT satellite, refreshed every 15m. Radar data is also available in your area, but it doesn't provide clouds or wind observations.
Forecast models available on Windy only have validities for every hour (in best cases).
I address this post to @Korina and @petra-pik (best moderators ever); obviously @idefix37 - who banned for a couple of hours the authors of posts above - would surely not understand nor appreciate it.
For those who don't know: clearly displaying the source of map data on web applications UI is a legal, as well as a moral obligation (the latter especially for free/public data - there are people who work hard and for free to provide it); Windy has been even gently "pushed" to display even credits to OSM (see e.g. here and there discussions involving OSM contributors... and @ivo). My posts above were just kind suggestions to Windy developpers to clearly display the origin of satellite images for base maps layers (as done on mapy.cz, as said above); all this for the happiness of data providers and also as info for Windy users as well (they claimed it before myself). Also, I'm pretty sure OSM contributors (I was one of them), wouldn't appreciate to be credited on Windy UI as contributors of that Bing (or so) satellite map data...
By this message I'm only rephrasing my other messages above (and those of @jidanni), considered as "peanuts" by kinda "Sailor-ModeratorMan", who a priori doesn't work for Windy but acts as if he does (he has many pertinent posts on the forum, at least from meteorological pov.).
Inglorious @idefix37 has already dared in the past to threaten me privately with remarks like: "I'm watching you!", or "If you reply to my messages on the forum again, I'll ban you!" (ban just performed today btw., for posts above...), or yet "Ah, you found a guy more stubborn than you!"; I avoid, of course my private responses were at least as polite as his threats (I can't stand threats anyway).
I guess I'm not his only "case": now he calls "trolls" and bans honest forum users for their relevant remarks on Windy (which he obviously doesn't understand himself, thus he considers them - from his own height - as "peanuts").
As long as people who think they are schoolmasters - and threaten other lower-ranking users in public and in private - are rampaging through this forum as Marines-Moderators, and as far as the users accept to be policed by such characters, I will leave it myself and of my own will and let Marines-Moderators managing their yard.
And so much the worse for myself as well as for the other users I could have helped for a long time: I work in the field of professional software for national meteorological institutes, I have been following Windy since its beginnings and I particularly appreciate it (even if considered as a competitor by my co-workers). Apart from bad encounters, I have enjoyed this forum as well for near three years. This was my last post here; of course I will continue using Windy, but I have other things to do in the field of meteorology than low level discussions with "Sailors-Moderators".
I apologize for this long speech; at least I hope it could help the forum and its users in the future (if the "Sailor-Moderator" wouldn't ban this post, too in next seconds |:o)--- .
Long live Windy, its developers and its brave users.
Many Thanks, Adiós!
Right credits for data sources is not peanuts...
I'm not a Bing Advocate, but obviously Satellite base map layer on sample below is not contributed by OSM. In cases where the map also displays city or country names, obviously there are two different contributors (OSM and Bing - or similar). Roughly, I think that displaying the origin of a satellite base map on UI is important not only for the data provider (which should be clearly credited anyway), but also for users.
See also this related post; actually, "Paises Catalanes" is not considered as a country, but as a cultural region sharing the same spoken language independently from countries borders (see here). Entering the full name "El Pas de la Casa" returns well 1st result in Andorra.
For more details, see the Catalan Countries entity handled by OpenStreetMap (Windy uses this data for base map layers): https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/11747082#map=7/40.519/3.590
I don't think Windy could provide such an aggregate results (or at least not yet); this kind of products are only generated by National Climatological Centers (see IMD web site for your region).
Windy has a REST API (see here for details), which doesn't use SQL queries and doesn't provide more than one can get via Windy.com UI (no historical data anyway).
I think the remark was about the "Base Map Layer" (when explicitly selected by user via control Map Layers as "Aerial"), not about "Satellite Data Layer".
Indeed, OpenStreetMap doesn't provide satellite imagery layers, while Windy UI displays info "©OpenStreetMap".
I guess the correct credentials for Satellite Base Map Layer on Windy UI should be something similar to what is provided on mapy.cz site here.
See this related discussion.
For sounding, this plugin works for every model, including IconD2:
