Vance Harral Posted April 17 Report Posted April 17 FYI, https://sites.gsl.noaa.gov/desi/ seems to be the NOAA replacement for rucsoundings.noaa.gov. It didn't show up until a while after rucsoundings.noaa.gov disappeared, and it's not well advertised. But it looks to be an improved version of the same interface. Navigate to the site, then click the icon in the top right corner that looks like a little Skew-T plot. That will show you a plot near your geographical location, and from there you can select different locations and times. Once you've selected your favorite site, you can bookmark the lengthy URL that shows up in your browser and use the bookmark to navigate directly there the next time. Quote
Fly Boomer Posted April 17 Report Posted April 17 40 minutes ago, Vance Harral said: FYI, https://sites.gsl.noaa.gov/desi/ seems to be the NOAA replacement for rucsoundings.noaa.gov. It didn't show up until a while after rucsoundings.noaa.gov disappeared, and it's not well advertised. But it looks to be an improved version of the same interface. Navigate to the site, then click the icon in the top right corner that looks like a little Skew-T plot. That will show you a plot near your geographical location, and from there you can select different locations and times. Once you've selected your favorite site, you can bookmark the lengthy URL that shows up in your browser and use the bookmark to navigate directly there the next time. Be very deliberate about what you click on. For me, it's about 60 seconds to respond after each click. If you click on something 10 times because it's not responding, you can go to the kitchen and get a sandwich. In my day some IT people would get fired over such bad performance for a customer-facing web site. Oh wait ... Quote
Will.iam Posted April 17 Report Posted April 17 Only green when IMC no yellow red or purple. i will fly around it. If vfr i will avoid it visually even when wx is painting yellow as that is rain. If a wall of red or worse will land if too far to fly around or if i break out of imc before landing i will fly below avoiding down drafts of rain showers. One thing to keep in mind the lower you are 4000 ft or lower to agl the less updrafts there are so generally smoother flight but higher risk of downburst that could push you into the ground so not for big fully mature cells. Flying a caravan back in the day my worse rides were 5000 to 15000 feet as you are in the vertical up and down drafts which can tear a plane apart. And i only fly above a building cb if i can clear it by more than 3000ft so that leaves out 15k and bigger. 2 Quote
Vance Harral Posted April 17 Report Posted April 17 3 minutes ago, Fly Boomer said: For me, it's about 60 seconds to respond after each click. Huh. I don't get that behavior at all, nor do a few others I've recommended the site to. Just tried it on my phone and it's snappy there too. May be specific to your combination of computer/browser/internet. But not accusing you of fibbing. I can tell just by the look of the thing that it's a resource intensive interface. I really liked the old rucsoundings.noaa.gov site. Kind of an old-fashioned interface, which is I suspect why they took it down. But it was simple to use. Quote
Fly Boomer Posted April 17 Report Posted April 17 1 minute ago, Vance Harral said: Huh. I don't get that behavior at all, nor do a few others I've recommended the site to. Just tried it on my phone and it's snappy there too. May be specific to your combination of computer/browser/internet. But not accusing you of fibbing. I can tell just by the look of the thing that it's a resource intensive interface. I really liked the old rucsoundings.noaa.gov site. Kind of an old-fashioned interface, which is I suspect why they took it down. But it was simple to use. You getting good response times just now? If yes, then it's my machine, my Wi-Fi, or my 1Gbit Google Fiber . Quote
Vance Harral Posted April 17 Report Posted April 17 10 minutes ago, Fly Boomer said: You getting good response times just now? If yes, then it's my machine, my Wi-Fi, or my 1Gbit Google Fiber . Well, here's a real-time clip of what it looks like for me right now on an old Windows 10 laptop with 2.4 GHz WiFi and cable internet. Pretty snappy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpPWpbeezz4 Quote
Fly Boomer Posted April 18 Report Posted April 18 18 minutes ago, Vance Harral said: Well, here's a real-time clip of what it looks like for me right now on an old Windows 10 laptop with 2.4 GHz WiFi and cable internet. Pretty snappy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpPWpbeezz4 Definitely on my end. Quote
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