One of the slickest features of WeatherSpork that many of our members are raving about is the vertical depiction within the route profile and meteogram views. The route profile like the one shown below is an incredibly useful tool to visualize how the weather will impact your route in four dimensions (fourth dimension being time). ...
Category: Imagery
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...
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...