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6.4.2013

NWW3 50 km resolution wave model forecasts Especially surfers might be interested in this new addon... As you might already know the wave forecasts on windguru are powered by NWW3 model from NOAA and we only used their data with 1 latitude x 1.25 longitude degree resolution. Maybe you still remember... long time ago we tried to switch to the higher (0.5 x 0.5 degree) resolution model from NOAA, but after several complaints about aaccuracy of the new forecasts we reverted back. But... advantage of the higher resolution NWW3 model is that it not only offers the basic parameters (wave height, direction and period) but also distinguish different components: primary swell, secondary swell and wind waves. The coarse resolution NWW3 data do not have this.

Now we have both. By default we show the new 50 km NWW3 model as a separate table under the GFS forecast and the GFS forecast still includes the older NWW3 100 km resolution data, same as before. If you have other preference simply go to settings -> preferences where you can configure how to display waves (registered users only). You can choose which data to include inside GFS forecasts and which wave models to display as separate tables.

If you have some custom spots and want to have wave forecasts for them, you should now visit the settings section to check their wave forecast configuration.

15.3.2013

Custom colors in forecasts. The default colors in the forecasts were selected very carefully and we believe this is the best for average windsurfer or kiter. In case you have other preference, you now have an option, feel free to edit colors anyhow according to your personal taste. See settings -> colors. (numai pentru utilizatorii înregistraţi)

24.1.2013

WRF 3 km resolution! forecasts for Gibraltar/Tarifa. Forecasts are for next 48 hours and update 4 times per day. (Numai pentru utilizatorii versiunii PRO)

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22.1.2013

WRF 9 km forecasts for Canaries and Egypt now include wind and temperature profile plots too (see 2D tab on forecasts).

12.1.2013

WRF 12 km for Argentina now updates 4 times per day and include wind and temperature profile plots (see 2D tab on forecasts).

26.11.2012

Official Windguru app for Android. It's quite simple and very simliar to our mobile site at touch.windguru.cz. The main purpose of this app is to get easily to your windguru forecast on your phone or tablet. It does not have many features (at least yet) but should do what we need the most: to view the forecast in the format we are all used to :-)

Main features:

• Classic windguru forecast tables
• Bandwith friendly. The app minimize downloads and should work even on slow internet connections.
• Supports offline use. When offline, the app can still display previously loaded forecasts.

The plan is to release official apps for all major platforms and all these apps should look and work same or at least very similiar.

Please note that some Windguru apps already exist for several platforms (Android, iPhone, Windows Mobile, Windows Phone) - see the Help section. These apps are made by external partners and still are and will be supported by Windguru as alternatives.

19.11.2012

Some minor updates:

• Email alerts now support pressure as another parameter.
• WRF archives now also include precipitation and clouds.
• Started process of unifiyng the appearance of the forecast maps, previously the WRF maps were generated by different software and looked a little different than maps we made for GFS, NAM etc., we want to make all the maps look same. At the moment we changed maps for WRF 9 km model for Europe and WRF 3 km for Czech republic. The other WRF models should follow soon. For Europe we now have a little different detailed maps then before and also added 4 maps that show larger areas at once (NW, NE, SW and SE of Europe), should be useful to get a better overview of the forecast.

13.11.2012

WRF 9 km resolution! forecasts for South Africa. (Numai pentru utilizatorii versiunii PRO)

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18.1.2011

A little update of the Email alerts. Alerts now support conditions for wind gusts, and waves (NWW3 model).

9.1.2012

Wind and temperature profile plots. Now you can see what wind and temperature is forecasted in different altitudes. Mouse over the "2D" tab on the forecast to select the profile. Same as the graphs introduced recently, the plots are drawn by the browser, SVG graphics support is required (all browsers except Internet Explorer 8 or below).

1.12.2011

Graphical version of the forecast. Now you can also see the forecasts as graphs, simply click the graph icon on the second tab of any forecast table.

Since the beginning of this site, the core of Windguru was the forecast displayed as colorful table with a lot of numbers. I think it will stay like this in future too because despite one can consider it a bit oldschool, the table shows a lot of info with high detail on a small space and still looks clear and uncluttered. But why not to offer alternative display option? Forecast graph offers another view, more eye candy :-) and some people will prefer it.

If you like to have the graphical view as your default, you can set it using the "options tab" on the main page.

Important notice: Your browser must support SVG graphics in order to display the graphical forecast. All good browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari, IE 9) are OK, but if you have Internet Explorer 8 or older it will not work, please switch to better browser if this is your case.

The positive thing is that all the graphs are not plain images that require additional data download, instead they are drawn by your browser, so it is also bandwith friendly for those with slower connections.

Graph example

What you see below is the first version of the graphical forecast (probably not final, we expect to fine-tune it over time).

There are two main sections of the graph, the upper part is dedicated to the most important = wind, it scales depending on how much wind is predicted, if strong wind is forecasted it is bigger, if there is not much wind it becomes smaller.

The bottom part shows the "less important" parameters like temperature, clouds, precipitation, pressure and humidity - all drawn into one section to save space.The cloud cover display is a little special so it needs a little more explanation: low clouds are the dark grey area that is drawn from bottom of the graph, high clouds are light grey drawn from the top of this graph section and middle clouds (medium grey) are drawn from the center both up and downwards. If any of these fill all the area then it means 100% cloud cover for given cloud layer. Because all the cloud layers are semi-transparent if there is a lot of clouds in all layers the whole cloud graph turns almost black indicating a lot of clouds, the darker it is the more clouds are forecasted and you can still see how much each layer participate.

Right now the units for wind speed and temperature are taken from the classic table forecast, if you want to switch them temporarily, go back to the normal forecast, change units to what you prefer and then open the graph tab again, it will redraw with selected units.

Future plans are to use the graphical display for visualizing temperature profile and wind in higher levels. We also plan to allow users to customize graph appearance because not only wind addicted people watch Windguru and they probably have other preferences.

If you have an opinion or idea about the new graphs feel free to send some feedback. Thanks!

20.11.2011

NAM 3 km resolution model forecasts for Hawaii! Updates are 4 times per day. Gratuit pentru toti utilizatorii.

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3.9.2011

New version of webmaster forecasts available! This is the recommended method of adding Windguru to your site now. It's very easy... simply copy and paste piece of HTML code to your site and you are done. Get the forecast code here!

20.7.2011

Windguru Mobile (beta). Windguru mobile version is optimized for touchscreen devices - smartphones or tablets. The purpose of this site is to get easily to your Windguru forecast using the touch screen. Windguru Mobile should work with most modern mobile browsers but please still consider it beta version only. Some bugs can appear, please excuse possible troubles.

Try it at: http://touch.windguru.cz

16.5.2011

Wind / wave direction now displayed with higher precision. This is a tiny update which you will hardly notice but can be useful... Till now windguru only displayed 16 different arrows for direction (22.5 degree precision), now it can display it exactly without this limit. Your browser must support SVG graphics to see the difference (all better browsers do support it - Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari... if you use Internet Explorer then you need the current version 9, older IE versions will not work)

14.5.2011

HRW 5 km resolution model forecasts for part of Caribbean. Covers area around Dominican republic and Puerto Rico. Acest model cu rezolutie ridicata se actualizeaza de doua ori pe zi si ofera prognoza pentru 48 de ore la un interval de o ora. Gratuit pentru toti utilizatorii

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17.2.2011

Windguru for Windows Phone 7. Available from Windows Phone Marketplace, for FREE! The application is developed by Justin Drerup (fanetic.com).

21.1.2011

Email alerts! Do not want to miss great forecast for your spot? Setup windguru email alerts and windguru will send you email whenever the forecast meet the desired conditions. (Alerts based on WRF models are only available to PRO users)

18.11.2010

WRF 3 km resolution! forecasts for Czech republic. Such a high resolution requires a lot of computing so the domain can't cover a large area, forecasts are for next 48 hours and update 4 times per day. (Numai pentru utilizatorii versiunii PRO)

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17.11.2010

WRF 9 km domain for Europe extended. We have moved the domain slightly towards north and extended northwards and eastwards so that it now covers whole British Isles, Denmark, south of Sweeden, bigger part of Baltic sea and Latvia..

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15.11.2010

Windguru for Windows Mobile 6.5. The application is developed by Justin Drerup (fanetic.com). It's FREE.

29.7.2010

Added wind gusts to GFS model forecasts.

22.7.2010

Windguru in latvian! The latvian version is maintained by Reinis Pļaviņš, Zane Kreslina & Igor Krumin

15.05.2010

Prognoze folosind modelul WRF cu o rezolutie de 12 km pentru Argentina. (Acopera de asemenea Uruguay, mare parte din Chile, o parte din Paraguay si sudul Braziliei). Acest model cu rezolutie ridicata se actualizeaza de doua ori pe zi si ofera prognoza pentru 78 de ore la un interval de o ora. Va rugam sa aveti in vedere ca aceasta versiune este inca in mod de previzualizare, versiunea finala se actualizeaza de 4 ori pe zi si acoperirea poate sa fie diferita. (Numai pentru utilizatorii versiunii PRO)

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10.5.2010

Am adaugat temperatura la nivelul marii. Datele provin din analize NOAA Real-Time Global Sea Surface Temperature (RTG_SST_HR dataset), sursa fiind date din satelit si observatii ale navelor.

11.4.2010

Harti de prognoza pentru modelul HRW cu o rezolutie de 4 km pentru Statele Unite ale Americii. (Numai pentru utilizatorii versiunii PRO)

9.4.2010

Prognoze folosind modelul HRW cu o rezolutie de 4 km pentru Statele Unite ale Americii! Aceste modele cu rezolutie ridicata provin de la NOAA/NWS (servicii meteorlogice Americane) si se bazeaza pe modele WRF similare cu modelele de prognoza HRW pentru Hawaii. NOAA numeste acest model HRW (High Resolution Window) astfel ca si noi vom folosi aceeasi eticheta. Folosesc 2 domenii diferite, unul acopera partea central-estica a SUA si se actualizeaza de doua ori pe zi (vom eticheta cu HRWe), si celalalt acopera partea central-vestica a SUA si se actualizeaza o data pe zi (HRWw). Amandoua modelele ofera prognoza pentru 48 de ore cu un interval orar de o ora. Gratuit pentru toti utilizatorii

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HRWw (US west/central)	HRWe (US east/central)

4.4.2010

Dupa mai multe reclamatii legate de imbunatatirea modelului pentru valuri din 27 martie am revenit la modelul vechi cu o rezolutie mai scazuta NWW3. Pe viitor putem adauga modele cu o rezolutie ridicata din nou dar numai optional pentru utilizatorii care vor sa testeze acest model.

27.3.2010

Prognozele pentru valuri sunt acum bazate pe seturi de date NWW3 cu o rezolutie de 50 km. Pana acum am folosit date cu o rezolutie mai scazuta (1 x 1.25 grade) care corespund la aproximativ 100 km. Aceasta imbunatatire ar trebui sa faca prognoza pentru valuri mai precisa. Daca aveti locatii personalizate cu prognoza pentru valuri activata, va rugam sa le bifati in setari, mai ales daca ati introdus coordonate alternative pentru valuri.

19.1.2010

Windguru pentru Android. Aplicatia poate fi descarcata si instalata de pe Android Market. Este GRATUITA

1.1.2010

Nivelul de inghet este disponibil ca parametru optional in tabelul de prognoze (utilizatorii inregistrati il pot activa in setari).

7.12.2009

GFS, NAM & HRW harti de prognoza (Numai pentru utilizatorii versiunii PRO). Harta acopera mai multe regiuni in jurul lumii, afisand viteza vantului, temperatura, precipitatiile si nebulozitatea.

24.11.2009

Prognoze folosind modelul HRW cu o rezolutie de 5 km pentru Hawaii! Acest model cu rezolutie ridicata se actualizeaza de doua ori pe zi si ofera prognoza pentru 48 de ore la un interval de o ora. Gratuit pentru toti utilizatorii

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6.11.2009

Puteti alege locatii dintr-o harta Google. Aceasta noua caracteristica va ajuta in special cand cautati o prognoza intr-o anumita zona dar nu stiti exact ce cautati. Puteti afisa harta selectand casuta "arata harta" de langa meniul locatiei (vezi imaginea alaturata). Harta va încărca întotdeauna spot-urile pe care le vedeţi în meniul"select spot"

De exemplu: selectaţi Italia, atunci meniul spot vă va completa toate spot-urile din Italia şi deasemenea se vor încărca pe hartă şi vor apărea pe ecran.În cazul în care doriţi să vedeţi toate spot-urile din Europa atunci selectaţi TOATE în meniul ţării respective.Puteţi deasemenea să selecţionaţi TOATE spot-urile găsibile selecţionând TOATE continentele şi apoi TOATE din ţările respective , dar veţi avea de aşteptat pentru că se vor încărca o groază de spot-uri Va recomand sa folositi harta cu browsere recomandate. Internet Explorer nu este recomandat deoarece este foarte incet in comparatie cu alte browsere.

If there are more spots too close to each other they are grouped in the map, click the group icon to zoom in and show more detail.

30.10.2009

Am adaugat peste 1000 de locatii noi in lista oficiala. Acest lucru a fost posibil datorita colaborarii noastre cu Stoked Publications care a publicat noul ghid WORLD KITE AND WINDSURFING GUIDE. Primul ghid legat de locatiile pentru surfing si parapanta din lume. Prezinta aproape 100 de regiuni si dispune de peste 1200 din cele mai bune locatii din lume. Ilustrat cu 700 de fotografii si harti detaliate pentru fiecare regiune. Plusuri: explicatii pe larg ale conditiilor de vant, vreme si valuri pe toata durata anului. Ghidul ofera de asemenea informatii despre turism cu sfaturi esentiale asupra asteptarilor in fiecare regiune si ce este esential pentru o excursie. Ghidul contine informatii despre magazinele locale, scoli, centre de inchiriere precum si cazare, restaurante si alte sfaturi folositoare. Va recomandam!

Toate locatiile mentionate in ghid sunt acum acoperite de prognozele Windguru.

2.8.2009

Prognoze folosind modelul WRF cu o rezolutie de 9 km pentru Egipt! Noul domeniu WRF acopera Nordul Marii Rosii cu locatii cunoscute din Egipt, Israel, Lebanon si sudul Ciprului.

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6.7.2009

Prognoze folosind modelul WRF cu o rezolutie de 9 km pentru Insulele Canare! Noul domeniu de 9 km acopera Madeira si o parte din coasta Atlantica a Marocului

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