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Don Maxwell - Aug 03,2018
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If you haven't downloaded the Windy app yet--well, this would be a good time to do it. Maybe you loved the old Storm app, for those lovely moving wind arrows, the fronts, and all. Storm is dead. But Windy does everything Storm did and more--EVERYthing more! It's absolutely the most comprehensive weather tool available anywhere for ordinary people--including pilots. Covers the whole planet. And it's free. If it has a fault, it's only that it's SO comprehensive, it takes a while to learn how to use it. You don't even have to download the app (although you should!) Just use it in your web browser. HERE'S THE LINK: https://www.windy.com/?37.274,-77.220,5,i:pressure (Link should open in a new tab or window.)
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Don Maxwell - Aug 03,2018
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Don Maxwell - Aug 18,2018
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Just in case you haven't gone nuts over Windy yet, have a look at this little video:
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Mark MacKinnon - Sep 09,2018
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I've become a fan, thanks Don.
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Don Maxwell - Sep 09,2018
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Try its new feature, "Radar, Lightning": see and hear strikes in more or less real time.
Also, Eric B. found this other, crowd-sourced site for more intense lightning strikes:
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Carr, Frank - Sep 09,2018
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While I've not been using this particular site, I have noticed on the "run-of-the-mill" radar Apps, including NOAA's, inaccuracies
in the rain picture even when taking time-lapse into account. Green doesn't always mean rain fall--at least at my house. So
I'm wondering if it can also be virgo, or do they have the gain tweaked up too high? I grant this is anecdotal, but it's a dozen
or more anecdotes. Hope I'm not stealing your thread Don.
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Don Maxwell - Sep 23,2018
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Frank, I see that all the time in the Garmin Pilot app. It displays a light green, paler than the green that most other radar displays show, that almost always seems to be virga--or at least it has never reached the ground where I happened to be at the time.
Garmin bought the "Pilot MyCast" flipphone weather app and added lots of stuff to it, turning it into a (too) much more complex GPS navigation app, but the weather apparently still comes from the original MyCast sources. That pale green is part of it.
The iFly GPS app/device, on the other hand, uses different sources and has more conservative (or less twitchy) displays of green. It On the other hand, iFly does some fancy interpolating to display the wind aloft at 1500 ft, which I've found useful many times in my Searey. And Windy has a 100 meter level for wind that's even more useful for predicting low level turbulence.
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Paul Sanchez - Nov 18,2018
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Thank you Don! I was really disappointed with Storm and was so hoping they would bring back Intellicast, but I really like this
Windy.
If you ever want to get more accurate wind readings try this: http://ryancarlton.com. We use it for Ballooning and it comes in handy
if you’re gonna be looking for accurate winds down below 100 ft.
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Don Maxwell - Nov 18,2018
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Thanks, Paul! That's a great site. Most forecasts ignore winds between the surface and 3000 MSL--searey altitudes--so this one is really useful.
The iFly GPS (for Windows, iPhone, Android) shows winds aloft at 1500 feet. I've found that helpful in trying to guess the winds just above the surface. But your balloonists site is much better.
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