With the winter just around the corner, you can bet the Great Lakes ice machine is starting to warm up its rusty engine. This will be the first opportunity since WeatherSpork was released in March for fellow Sporkies to see how well it handles the great ice maker this coming winter. Here’s a sneak...
Category: Imagery
HREF outage in WeatherSpork Imagery view
Over the past several days, the HREF products have been unavailable in the Imagery view. They are provided by NOAA and are generated by a non-operational or experimental platform which makes them vulnerable to have outages from time to time. Here’s the statement provided by NOAA… “Once again the NCEP development computer is unavailable...
Decoding of date-time stamps, better favorite names and support of hourly grid view in WeatherSpork version 4.4.2
WeatherSpork release 4.4.2 is now available in the Apple App Store and Google Play Store! Here are some of the new features and enhancements you’ll find in this release. Decoded date-time stamps within Imagery view Perhaps one of the biggest WeatherSpork customer pet peeves is learning how to decode all of the different date-time...
Easier decoding of valid times on static weather imagery
You won’t find a more comprehensive set of weather imagery anywhere online than you will find in the WeatherSpork app. But there is a slight downside to that. Each flavor of weather guidance in the app comes with a potentially unique date-time stamp shown at a different location on the chart. Moreover, at times it...
Using WeatherSpork to find that perfect time to depart
It’s the mid afternoon on Friday and you are planning to depart Bentonville, Arkansas (KVBT) sometime tomorrow (Saturday) headed to Panama City, Florida (KECP) to spend a week at the beach. You have the flexibility to leave anytime tomorrow, but most importantly, you want to minimize your exposure to adverse weather. Watch the 30...
Rain showers should get your attention
Too many pilots see the word “showers” and think it’s just some harmless light rain event. When, in fact, a forecast for showery precipitation should get your attention since rain showers are a result of a convective process. In many cases, forecasters often use showery precipitation (SHRA or VCSH) when they have a fair...
New weather imagery for you jet jockeys
If you are flying in the flight levels this summer and especially the upper flight levels, we have some new static weather Imagery for you! We recently added to WeatherSpork version 4.3.4 new guidance that is going to be very popular with you jet jockeys out there. It’s from the High Resolution Ensemble Forecast (HREF) which...
Newest enhancements to WeatherSpork – version 4.3.0
WeatherSpork just got even better! WeatherSpork version 4.3.0 is now available in the App Store. In addition to a few bug fixes, we are excited to tell you that we raised the roof of WeatherSpork to FL450. You’ll now enjoy in the Route Profile view a depiction of clouds, wind and en route advisories...
New static Imagery from the HREF model
With WeatherSpork version 4.3.0, we’ve extended the static Imagery to include aviation forecasts from the High Resolution Ensemble Forecast (HREF) model. The HREF is updated four times a day and provides a forecast lead time of 36 hours at one hour time increments. In WeatherSpork you can find these in the Imagery view right...