Dear Windy team,
I'm a meteorologist, forecaster and balloon pilot.
I work a lot with windy-trajectory for long distance balloon flights and tactical parachuting activities.
We also use the trajectory for the purpose of planning the Gordon Bennett race, i.e. the gas balloon world championship.
There is no comparable tool available even on the professional forecast software systems (like NinJo).
It would be a mess for me, if the trajectories wouldn't work anymore.
So please transfer at least that plug-in to the frontend.
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RE: We are sorry, but windy-plugins are no longer mainatainable
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RE: windy-plugin-radiosonde
Best plugin to display radiosoundings.
I use it in my job as a flight weather forecaster as well as for my hobby as a balloon pilot. -
RE: Windy V40 - What's New
Is there a possibility to get back the pictograms for the selection of the parameters? The small images are not helpful in my opinion.
I also miss the "submenus". For me it was very comfortable to select e.g. "Clouds" and instantly find the submenu with "Low Clouds", "Medium Clouds" and "High Clouds" (same for wind and gusts).
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meteograms underreport convective activity like thunderstorms
I observe a critical issue with Windy meteograms for quite a while now, and I’ve been watching this for at least 2 years:
In unstable conditions Windy meteograms repeatedly underreport convective clouds.
Frequently the meteogram shows fair conditions, while in fact there are widespread showery rain and thunderstorms.
I believe the underreporting is due to the fact that convective clouds are not part of the direct model output.
This is a safety issue.
Fortunately this issue could be fixed easily all required input data for deriving a more realistic convective cloud forecast should be readily available.Here is a detailed example using the weather situation of the 16.05.2024:
This is the Windy ICON-D2 meteogram of Oberpfaffenhofen (EDMO), 00 Z runAs you can see, there is no precipitation forecasted.
This is what happened in the afternoon:The meteogram does not give any hint regarding unstable atmospheric conditions.
It would be straightforward to implement this in the meteograms by using a simple algorithm using TCON, CCL (already available in the aerology – measured and forecasted soundings) and the bouyancy level BL (which can easily be calculated from the sounding data).
I suggest a visual display in the meteogram as vertical bars, which could look like so:The vertical bars should extend from CCL to BL for the time period in which TCON is reached or exceeded.
The values derived in the abovementioned algorithm would also enable classification of the weather phenomenon, like light/heavy shower, thunderstorm, hail - even hail size.
If you are interested in implementing this improvement, I'd be happy to provide guidance.
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RE: Cloud cover shading in radiosondes
As far as I know, the shading is derived from the relative humidity.
Over 85% BKN
Between 65% and 85% FEW to SCT
Under 65% no clouds
So the shadings in your examples seem to be buggy as the soundings are quite dry. -
meteograms underreport convective activity like thunderstorms
I observe a critical issue with Windy meteograms for quite a while now, and I’ve been watching this for at least 2 years:
In unstable conditions Windy meteograms repeatedly underreport convective clouds.
Frequently the meteogram shows fair conditions, while in fact there are widespread showery rain and thunderstorms.
I believe the underreporting is due to the fact that convective clouds are not part of the direct model output.
This is a safety issue.
Fortunately this issue could be fixed easily all required input data for deriving a more realistic convective cloud forecast should be readily available.Here is a detailed example using the weather situation of the 16.05.2024:
This is the Windy ICON-D2 meteogram of Oberpfaffenhofen (EDMO), 00 Z runAs you can see, there is no precipitation forecasted.
This is what happened in the afternoon:The meteogram does not give any hint regarding unstable atmospheric conditions.
It would be straightforward to implement this in the meteograms by using a simple algorithm using TCON, CCL (already available in the aerology – measured and forecasted soundings) and the bouyancy level BL (which can easily be calculated from the sounding data).
I suggest a visual display in the meteogram as vertical bars, which could look like so:The vertical bars should extend from CCL to BL for the time period in which TCON is reached or exceeded.
The values derived in the abovementioned algorithm would also enable classification of the weather phenomenon, like light/heavy shower, thunderstorm, hail - even hail size.
If you are interested in implementing this improvement, I'd be happy to provide guidance.
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RE: Windy V40 - What's New
Is there a possibility to get back the pictograms for the selection of the parameters? The small images are not helpful in my opinion.
I also miss the "submenus". For me it was very comfortable to select e.g. "Clouds" and instantly find the submenu with "Low Clouds", "Medium Clouds" and "High Clouds" (same for wind and gusts).
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RE: We are sorry, but windy-plugins are no longer mainatainable
Dear Windy team,
I'm a meteorologist, forecaster and balloon pilot.
I work a lot with windy-trajectory for long distance balloon flights and tactical parachuting activities.
We also use the trajectory for the purpose of planning the Gordon Bennett race, i.e. the gas balloon world championship.
There is no comparable tool available even on the professional forecast software systems (like NinJo).
It would be a mess for me, if the trajectories wouldn't work anymore.
So please transfer at least that plug-in to the frontend. -
Missing SYNOP stations
Since a few weeks I'm missing the SYNOP data of several German SYNOP stations.
For example: 10961 Zugspitze, 10962 Hohenpeissenberg, 10982 Chieming and a lot more.
Is this a bug or a feature? ;-) -
RE: windy-plugin-radiosonde
Best plugin to display radiosoundings.
I use it in my job as a flight weather forecaster as well as for my hobby as a balloon pilot.