![]() Germany-based MeteoGroup is one of those suppliers. Not to shatter any illusions, but just like the weather forecasting itself, which is accomplished by scientists in windowless workspaces in drab offices around the world - not the prancing, toothy guy in the shiny suit on TV - many of the visualizations on TV are supplied by third parties. Recently, it’s made some of its graphic tools available in mobile form. MeteoGroup is a European producer of weather-in-motion graphics that it supplies to broadcasters. Another weather app that I had not seen before.Well, you can now get something similar on your Android device. Ventusky, can be used on a browser but I find it easier as a tablet app, £3.99, with Apple and Google Play/Android versions. The presentation is in streamline form, similar to. Both, like MeteoConsult I believe, are based in the Czech Republic. Like most apps and similar services, it provides GFS global model data worldwide with the widest number of elements and parameters. However, there are a number of features that make Ventusky stand out from the pack. It provides the DWD ICON global model 4 times a day with output at hourly intervals, although only for 3 days ahead.It is the only source that I know that provides regional data from the ICON-EU model updated every 3 hours.Īs far as I know it is the only app that gives ICON hourly data.Therefore, it will always be the most up to date NWP model output for Europe. In that way it is superior to any other data source known to me. Ě particularly useful facility is that it shows analyses for the previous week so that you can look back and see how what you observed compares with the NWP starting point.It lets you see how weather patterns have evolved. It provides the Canadian GEM NWP output as a fall-back in the (rare) event of GFS computer or communications failure.ğor those crossing the pond it has the US HRRR forecast (High Resolution Rapid Refresh).This is updated hourly.Īs with other global GRIB displays, and Meteo Earth, I have to wonder at the data download size. I am not sure that I would use this when roaming. Maybe somebody more expert than I am could take a look at Ventusky and Windy downloads.Īs a personal comment, I find it galling that the UK Met Office, probably the world leading national weather service as far as NWP is concerned provides a service to sailors inferior to several others – Germany, Netherlands, USA, etc.Ĭlick to expand.Thanks for the info. I do not have Android so only know about Sailgrib from contact with them and reading the app details. Which Open Skiron forecast do you use? Their own GRIB files or ICON-EU? The latter should be better as it uses a good detailed analysis while, I believe, Open Sjkiron interpolates from the GFS 25km output. It can have no westher detail although, like other models, it will have good topographical input. Mind you, how much that really matters in terms of usefulness is debatable.Īlso, my understanding is that ICON-EU is a more advanced than the model used by Open Skiron. Small weather details have short lifetimes. It takes at least 5 hours before a forecast can be produced and disseminated starting from a GFS analysis and forecast. ![]() Even ICON-Eu, closely integrated with the global ICON takes about 4 hours, I think, to produce from the base data time. That is near the lifetime of weather detail a few 10s of km in size.ĭetailed analyses are needed for National Weather services that have to give short term warnings of severe weather. But, of course, they run even those models as ensembles.
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