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A new Digital Atmosphere test version patch has been released: http://216.71.158.243/dl/digatmws-patch.exe IMPORTANT : Contouring will be more unreliable in this version. IMPORTANT : The Internal weather data storage format is NOT compatible with previous versions. The record structure has been chan...

I just heard back from Richard Thompson (SPC forecaster)... he had this to say: "DCAPE values tend to be lower for F2+ tornado environments, and larger for damaging wind/hail environments, though the differences aren't terribly large. DCAPE range subjective interpretation < 600 J/kg "small...

Feel free to post any Digital Atmosphere data retrieval URLs -- it's a perfectly legitimate topic.

Tim

For anyone waiting on the Weather Map Handbook (and there are quite a few backorders), printing is complete and books will arrive here by December 5 . Just about everyone will get their copies by next week. I thought about posting this as a news headline on the main page, but figured it probably was...

Work on this scripting has been ongoing much of today. It is very much being based on PCGRIDDS (which, I agree, is rather intuitive even though it seems a bit awkward). Here is the type of form that is taking shape. To plot a simple temperature map in deg C, you would enter CONT TEMP A much more ela...

The latest test version will expire in 30 instead of 60 days due to a coding error. Later this week some users will begin to see a gray box on startup, which means that the trial will expire within 5 days. More and more users will see this in the weeks ahead. The good news is that a patch will be re...

We are about to enhance the scripting of Digital Atmosphere so that it is possible to combine fields, do true custom analyses, and so on. The idea is to use scripting to form a flexible foundation for Digital Atmosphere, and thus the menu commands (Contour > Temperature, etc) would not drive the pro...

John O'Reilly wrote:Further my suggestion to have DA do a vector addition of geostrophic and isallobaric winds.

Thanks for the suggestion -- this would be a worthwhile addition.

Tim

I am very disappointed that you have moved from the mail-based text discussions to this Web format. I expected some resistance to this. However I'll look for any add-ons that will allow messages to be sent to user E-mail address, which would continue a mail-based format. This will depend on what pl...

smasters wrote:While the old WX-SOFT group was geared mostly towards DA and its support, it was also a useful place to discuss other products, particularly new ones.

Consider it done. Discussion about other software tools would be a great addition.

Tim