We get a fair number of questions about the forecast dotted blue freezing level line you’ll find on the Route Profile or Meteogram views in WeatherSpork. When there’s only a single freezing level (more accurately, the melting level) forecast, you’ll see just a single dotted line as is depicted in the image below. This...
Category: The Spork Report
October 2018 SporkNews
Greetings! If you are new to WeatherSpork, welcome to the family! Congratulations, you are now officially a Sporkie! This e-Newsletter will be emailed out at the beginning of each month to keep you updated on the progress of new features and content provided by WeatherSpork. We are listening and we’ve already received dozens of feature...
August 2018 SporkNews
If you are new to WeatherSpork, welcome to the family! This e-Newsletter will be emailed out at the beginning of each month to keep you updated on the new features and content provided by WeatherSpork. We hope the app has made your preflight weather analysis much easier and has saved you time to find that...
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...
July 2018 SporkNews
If you are new to WeatherSpork, welcome to the family! This e-Newsletter will be sent out at the beginning of each month to keep you updated on the new features and content provided by WeatherSpork. We hope the app has made finding the most opportune time to depart a simple and easy process. The month...
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...
Expanded airport database, METARs and more with WeatherSpork release 4.4.0
WeatherSpork release 4.4.0 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. Keep those referrals going! First, thanks a bunch to those Sporkies that are spreading the word about the WeatherSpork app to their fellow pilots. We’ve...
WeatherSpork’s station list has expanded plus METARs!
With the release of WeatherSpork version 4.4.0, you can enter any public-use airport as a waypoint on the route. That includes your departure and destination airports. Be sure to use the four-character ICAO identifier. For example, if you are departing out of Wilgrove Air Park in Charlotte, North Carolina (8A6), be sure to include...
Convective flight planning with WeatherSpork
There’s no doubt that we are now waist-deep into the warm season where powerful convection is shrinking the airspace that’s available for us to use on any given flight. Check our our latest video that demonstrates how to use WeatherSpork to plan that perfect time to depart when there’s a threat for deep, moist...
Major upgrade next year to the Global Forecast System (GFS)
NOAA/NWS selected the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) finite volume cubed-sphere (FV3) dynamical core as the NWS Next Generation Global Prediction System (NGGPS). The current operational GFS, which has a spectral dynamical core, will be replaced by the proposed GFS with FV3 dynamical core and improved physics parameterizations in the second quarter of Fiscal Year...
Introducing our WeatherSpork member referral program
Are you a big fan of WeatherSpork? If so, we have a way for you to earn our gratitude! With each new member you refer and pays for an annual subscription, we will extend your own membership by one month. Twelve referrals means you’ll get an entire year free. It’s that simple. You could...
Spork meets Droid, Android, that is!
We are excited to let you know that we’ve just released our new app to Google Play for those that use an Android device. With very few exceptions, the WeatherSpork app will have the same look and feel and has all the same features as our popular iOS and web-based versions of WeatherSpork. So...
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...
Just raised the roof on WeatherSpork!
With WeatherSpork version 4.3.0, you now have the option of selecting FL450 as the upper limit on the clouds and weather display. The upper limit on earlier releases was restricted FL200. This will allow you to see winds (speed and direction) as well as clouds and advisories (G-AIRMETs and SIGMETs) that extend higher in...