windy-plugin-sounding

Sounding forecast for paraglider pilots.

You can load the plugin on mobiles and tablets by visiting https://www.windy.com/plugins/windy-plugin-sounding. (Note that the mobile application does not support plugins for security reasons).

How to use the plugin

1. Click on the hamburger menu at the top left of windy.com:

2. Click on "Install Windy Plugin":

3. Load the "Sounding" plugin:

4. Right-click anywhere on the map and select "Better Sounding" to display the sounding forecast:

The sounding appears on the left side of screen:

A few notes:

• On desktop, you can scroll (mouse wheel) on the sounding diagram to go forward/backward in time - (pressing ctrl or shift will jump to the next/previous day),
• On touch devices, swiping left or right on the plugin will go backward or forward in time,
• The blue line shows the dewpoint,
• The red line shows air temperature,
• The green line shows the temperature of an ascending parcel,
• The hatched area across the graph shows the convective layer (cumulus clouds),
• The left area shows clouds (excluding cumulus),
• The top-most area show upper level clouds (i.e. up to ~15km),
• The wind graph shows wind from 0-30km/h in the left part (white background) and from 30 to max speed in right part (red background),
• On desktop, the subtitle shows which model is used ("GFS" in this example - note that not all models are supported),
• The axis units match your windy settings.

Credits:

• windy.com for their great web app and exposing the required data,
• windy-plugin-skewt by by John C. Kealy for some initial inspiration,
• MetPy for the maths,
• Preact for the small footprint framework,
• Icons by Yannick,
• Loading Indicator by Sam Herbert,
• and also d3, Babel, ESLint, SVGOMG, ...

Support the development

You can support the development of this plugin via the Buy me a Coffee platform

Any contribution is greatly appreciated!