This one's new to me. Never heard of it before. Thanks!
Windy.com
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#22over the past few years my use of weather apps + forecasting has really been improved by reading alongside them the local NWS office's "area forecast discussion"which is published multiple times a day by the station's meteorologists: https://www.wrh.noaa.gov/total_forecast/getprod.php?new&wfo=... It's really great to be able to contextualize the state of a Windy map, for example especially in Seattle where the weathe…
Here's the same for the SF Bay area for those interested (took some poking around to find it, basically MTR is the monterey/bay area weather center so I tweaked the URL params to match)
https://www.wrh.noaa.gov/total_forecast/getprod.php?new&wfo=...
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#23What stack is this built on? Love Windy and have used it for several years.
PHP, Nginx, particles.js
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#24over the past few years my use of weather apps + forecasting has really been improved by reading alongside them the local NWS office's "area forecast discussion"which is published multiple times a day by the station's meteorologists: https://www.wrh.noaa.gov/total_forecast/getprod.php?new&wfo=... It's really great to be able to contextualize the state of a Windy map, for example especially in Seattle where the weathe…
Windy has all of that. A quick glance at the layer menu on the right of the map shows how to toggle that and more.
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#25Runs very smoothly on Safari on iPhone 6S! An impressive job by the devs.
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#26over the past few years my use of weather apps + forecasting has really been improved by reading alongside them the local NWS office's "area forecast discussion"which is published multiple times a day by the station's meteorologists: https://www.wrh.noaa.gov/total_forecast/getprod.php?new&wfo=... It's really great to be able to contextualize the state of a Windy map, for example especially in Seattle where the weathe…
Absolutely right about the forecast discussion. I generally refer to that first (and even check it regularly throughout the day for updates). It is a far better tool for understanding the stage of the weather.
The other favorite of mine is the HRRR high-res models. You can see a simulated radar map for the next 48 hours: https://mag.ncep.noaa.gov/model-guidance-model-parameter.php...
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#27I have been using the similar site https://www.ventusky.com for a few years now.
They look like clones.
What's the difference?
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#28over the past few years my use of weather apps + forecasting has really been improved by reading alongside them the local NWS office's "area forecast discussion"which is published multiple times a day by the station's meteorologists: https://www.wrh.noaa.gov/total_forecast/getprod.php?new&wfo=... It's really great to be able to contextualize the state of a Windy map, for example especially in Seattle where the weathe…
Windy has all of that. A quick glance at the layer menu on the right of the map shows how to toggle that and more.
Can you explain how to find the AFDs in Windy's UI? I'm not able to find it in the layer menu...
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#29Windy is great. The map is appealing, but be sure to check out the forecast view for a particular location. Also make sure you try different locations. I'm in the Salish Sea on Orcas Island in the San Juans and because we have a lot of topography here mixed with ocean, we have a lot of local effects, contour winds and so on and there are big differences between locations.
Also note that Windy can get it wrong. I grew up in Cape Town and forecasting there is easy compared to here because it's the tip of Africa surrounded by Atlantic and Indian Ocean. Here it's very mixed with land, sea, big 11,000ft mountain ranges like the Olympics and so on and this region is hard to forecast. For where we are, the forecasts - and Windy's map specifically - is wrong fairly often.
A trick that a lot of folks don't know about is using ATIS, AWOS or ASOS at a local airport or airfield. If you want to know what the weather is at a given location, find a nearby airport, get their ATIS (or AWOS or ASOS) phone number and you can call and get a real-time report that is extremely accurate. I do this for KORS, our local airfield all the time. You can get this data off Foreflight although I'm sure there are plenty of free alternatives. Obviously it's current weather, not forecast, but it's often helpful.
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#30over the past few years my use of weather apps + forecasting has really been improved by reading alongside them the local NWS office's "area forecast discussion"which is published multiple times a day by the station's meteorologists: https://www.wrh.noaa.gov/total_forecast/getprod.php?new&wfo=... It's really great to be able to contextualize the state of a Windy map, for example especially in Seattle where the weathe…
Here's the same for the SF Bay area for those interested (took some poking around to find it, basically MTR is the monterey/bay area weather center so I tweaked the URL params to match) https://www.wrh.noaa.gov/total_forecast/getprod.php?new&wfo=...
Yup! And in general, you can click your location on https://www.weather.gov/ 's image map, and it'll redirect you to the local office URL which is the same 3 letter code: https://www.weather.gov/mtr/ and there is a link to the AFD in the "Text Product Selector" on the page!