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.
I guess the required info (and much more) is already provided on UI, via the Info control, for currently selected model:
The biggest white shark ever is swimming toward Europe, news say.
This web site displays its position in real time (as well as that of other swimming beasts).
And on that site, Weather Data Layers are provided by Windy:
This is the risk to take when using non-WMO weather stations. Nowadays everyone can buy on ebay and other amazons a so-called "weather station" for a couple of dollars, and then push on the web measures taken by any kind of sensors. Just be aware that many of these stations are not calibrated and thus not trustworthy.
Obviously the temperature sensors (at least) of station EW3441 are fucked off, while the owner is not aware or doesn't care about it. See more details here. Windy cannot handle this, it just displays without any control the measures sent by these stations. You should maybe ask more the owner of the station (maybe alanhenry53@hotmail.com).
As a conclusion: one should always trust WMO stations against personal weather stations.
All GFS 0.25° grib files provided by NCEP/NOAA after this upgrade do contain announced changes. I don't know if Windy downloads grids of all available parameters/levels: data is huge (>0.5 GB for each forecast), while downloaded grids may be filtered by both coverage, forecast, parameter and level.
Obviously not all available parameters and levels are available via Windy UI.
Anyway, introducing all parameters and levels on UI would be useless for most of the Windy users (e.g. some parameters are available for levels 0.1 hPa, 0.2 hPa, etc.); they would be only useful for research purpose.
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.
@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...
Of course "3D" is a language abuse (and so is "2.5D", too); nevertheless "3D" is nowadays generally understood as such by everyone, even by main contributors of modern GIS (e.g. ESRI).
I think the aim of Windy is not cartography (ArcGIS, Gogol Maps and other similar sites do this enough well; they hold the required money to do it); the main scope of Windy maps would be rather the Weather.
Thus, the so called "3D map" is just the Earth reduced to a dynamic sphere plotted on a flat web browser window. Of course it is a very rough approximation of the Terrestrial geoid... but finally who would like to get weather maps on such an ugly geoid, while "3D" does the deal for Weather maps? Moreover, holy "3D" actually has "4D": longitude, latitude, atmospheric level, and time validity of weather data layers.
About map projections: of course modern GIS can reproject on the fly any map data layer in thousands of different map projections, one more accurate than the other for a given point on Earth. But all this is pretty costly in terms of required hardware and map generation time. Thus, projections like the so-called Gogol (EPSG:900913), pseudo-projections like EPSG:4326, or famous "3D sphere", should be far enough pertinent for Weather maps on a free - or so cheap - web application. And I think Windy does all this at a pretty high performance rate: it is the most UI responsive public weather maps application I know.
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.
The announce is older than 3 years... Windy changed a lot since then and obviously changing username is no more possible...
See this related discussion.
For sounding, this plugin works for every model, including IconD2:
