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Since we should start seeing some rather windy mid latitude cyclones before too much longer I thought I'd do a simple wind speed shader. It uses a "normal" gradient shader starting at calm (feel free to change the colours above 50 - or any of the others :):

analyze,OVER FILL COLOR=255:66:255 GRTN ...

Any chance of seeing these reintroduced in a future Fusion, Mr. Vasquez? The color fill thing available is static...in other words it can't adjust to values outside of a typed script.

As we have a huge number of stations available with the MADIS download (although some values are off a tad) I ...

I'm up to 6 posts now

Pat

Hi Cliff,

I don't think an analysis of gusts can be scripted, or even analyzed, in DAWS at this time.

If a plot will do, you could save a plot model with GUST as a center plot, and save the model with the SPS file extension (be sure to exclude plotting wind barbs in the model). Once saved this ...

I haven't a clue what the error means, Bob.

Looks like this needs to have a Tim input

Pat

Ps How goes things with you?

Weird, Bob!

Are you running a script when the error pops up? I downloaded the albany fronts and COD METARs then plotted stations, fronts, and isobars without any troubles using the menu.

Pat

Did you download and install both the latest full and the latest patch? The grayed-out station plot thing sounds like an expired trial version (that's one of the things that get's zapped w/out registration)

Pat

Thanks for the update!

Is it just me or does that MADIS file contain a lot more stations than it used to?:)

Pat