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Toronto Electric Model Aviation Club (TEMAC) => General Discussion => Topic started by: flying IT on July 02, 2014, 05:18:05 PM

Title: weather and wind
Post by: flying IT on July 02, 2014, 05:18:05 PM
one of the issues i personally have is that i never know what the winds are going to be like at the field.  This is an issue because all I have are parkflyers.  So I have took it myself and did a little research and found a few interesting things.  First thing was that this issue is also a problem with others and is brought up in other forums.

There are DIY's and very reseanable retail weather stations out there.  I like this idea the best.  If there is a weather underground close by.  Well there happens to be one in stouffville itself.  attached is the link http://www.wunderground.com/personal-weather-station/dashboard?ID=IONWHITC4 (http://www.wunderground.com/personal-weather-station/dashboard?ID=IONWHITC4)
Title: Re: weather and wind
Post by: Andy Hoffer on July 02, 2014, 07:44:04 PM
It would be interesting to compare simultaneous results from this personal weather station in Stouffville (site environs and potential observation distortions unknown) to the nearest offical weather station (Buttonville Airport) and the Weather Network obs/forecast for Stouffville.

Andy
Title: Re: weather and wind
Post by: Oscar on July 03, 2014, 01:32:31 AM
I use the following website: http://forecast.io (http://forecast.io)

Very accurate and user friendly.

They have an app for Apple iphone. http://darkskyapp.com/

I found this weather website is pretty accurate. 
Title: Re: weather and wind
Post by: Bobmic on July 03, 2014, 07:56:49 AM
Ed posted the site bellow a while back:


http://weatherspark.com/#!dashboard;loc=43.9541,-79.3255;rd=2;ropts=loop:1,speed:6,alpha:0.7;fcs=1;msl=temperatureC;mol=radar;units=temperature:c,windSpeed:kph;graphs=smeisg:1,tiles:0,visibility:0,humidity:0,sdpitg:0,windDirection:1,snowDepth:0,windIcons:1,precipitation:0,windSpeed:1,stidpg:0,precipitationRate:0,cloudCeiling:0,clouds:0,saf:0,dewPoint:0,solarPosition:0,spaitg:1,pressure:0,subZero2:0,precipitationAmount:0,temperature:1,siitg:1


http://weatherspark.com/