Wind check apps

[Timster1973]

Hi all

Besides a typical weather app for iPhone, are there any good apps that anyone can recommend for wind checks?

Tim

 

[barspen]

I use "UAV Forecast" on the iPhone. Gives wind profiles at different altitudes and detailed forecast.

 

[pixl]

I use UAV Forecast...great app and website

UAV Forecast

 

[PsiFox]

Windy tv. I use it for all of my outdoors activities

 

[Keule]

This website: earth :: a global map of wind, weather, and ocean conditions

 

[pixl]

This website: earth :: a global map of wind, weather, and ocean conditions

I like that site...it has been fascination of mine for a few years now -- however the info isn't really granular enough for local drone flying forecasts

 

[Kestrel]

I just look at the weather channel website, never been let down. I don't bother with that stupid UAV forecast app.

 

[4wd]

Windy as forecasted

You are still better off observing local conditions, however the forecast speed at altitude is more likely to be correct as local conditions have less effect.
Close to the ground speeds fall off dramatically. Unless clouds are whizzing by you can't always be sure how much stronger it is well above trees and buildings.

 

[Qoncussion]

I bought a cheap Anemometer, and carry it in my car...

Electronic Mini Wind Speed Gauge Anemometer Meter GM816 - US$13.99 - Banggood Mobile

 

[Xtreme Drone Pilot]

I use Storm app and enable surface wind overlay, it shows wind as temperature-colored moving arrows, you can zoom in right to your location with satellite view. Very visual!

 

[Mossiback]

I look outside and if it is really windy I fly closer to the ground .

 

[Timster1973]

I use UAV Forecast...great app and website

UAV Forecast

Thank you, this looks really good. Many thanks

 

[dcren21]

I use "UAV Forecast" on the iPhone. Gives wind profiles at different altitudes and detailed forecast.

Thanks for this. Seems like it's what I was looking for. I'll give it a shot.

 

[Xtreme Drone Pilot]

I use "UAV Forecast" on the iPhone. Gives wind profiles at different altitudes and detailed forecast.

Just remember that wind profiles are rarely accurate, a ballpark at most, and I know this from experience - more than a decade of skydiving. This government-supplied data is based on weather balloons launched from big airports twice a day and then interpolated to your location, many miles away. All it is is a computer forecast based on very scarce data.

 

[JeffCharger]

I use a free one called "WindCompass". It's nice in that it shows the wind at altitude. Just an option.....

 

[MAvic_South_Oz]

I’ve been looked by at ventursky a lot more lately, besides wind speed, just about all sorts of other weather conditions are available, current and forecast.
Weather Forecast Maps

 

[thefly76]

me too : Weather Forecast Maps seems very completed

 

[gjmphoto]

I use a free one called "WindCompass". It's nice in that it shows the wind at altitude. Just an option.....

I just loaded it and had a look. It's a nice design; simple and clear. It seems to me that the wind at altitude is current altitude only, or am I missing an option somewhere? I'd like to know the wind at 200-300', which UAV gives me (even if less than accurate).

 

[JMF]

I just look at the weather channel website, never been let down. I don't bother with that stupid UAV forecast app.

The UAV forecast app is great, not sure why you consider it stupid ??

 

[JeffCharger]

I just loaded it and had a look. It's a nice design; simple and clear. It seems to me that the wind at altitude is current altitude only, or am I missing an option somewhere? I'd like to know the wind at 200-300', which UAV gives me (even if less than accurate).

Sorry, I think I'm wrong. I thought that the app let you identify the altitude to use at each location. I can't find that setting, so it either disappeared or was never there. I have 2 locations; one shows -16 metres and the other shows -48 metres. They are on a lake so the elevation should be within inches.

I have the app very accurate and useful.