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victory


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2010-07-20 10:58:25 - Update times!!
I see that the weather update times have changed.
Are the new times permanent??
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Eddie C. Dost


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2010-07-20 12:59:31 - Re: Update times!!
Yes, the times they are a changing...

There are two updates to the weather processing in SOL:

1. Faster processing of weather data.
2. The global GFS weather data is fetched directly from NOAA.

These two updates cause weather being available earlier.

For races in the Baltic Sea using data from WeatherTech, update times changed

from 0900 to 0840 UTC and
from 2040 to 2020 UTC.

For races using the global GFS weather (most races), update times changed

from 0600 to 0430 UTC,
from 1140 to 1030 UTC,
from 1740 to 1630 UTC, and
from 2340 to 2240 UTC.

Next to the change in weather update times the global GFS resolution has been increased from 1x1 degree to 0.5x0.5 degrees. This increase will improve quality (more detailed winds) in smaller race areas, where the full detail can be passed to the SOL clients and to Sailplanner.

The global GFS data is now available from pole to pole, so there might be races further north of 70 degrees now. This was not possible with the old global GFS data. How about a race to Longyearbyen?

The quality of data for the Baltic Sea is not effected.
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2010-07-20 13:08:49 - Re: Update times!!
Fantastic news on the move to to high res weather.
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victory


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2010-07-20 13:39:21 - Re: Update times!!
Thanks Eddie for such a detailed answer (as usual) ;-)
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2010-07-20 14:15:44 - Re: Update times!!
Awesome, the new hours are a bit more manageable than the previous times. At least for those of us in UTC -4. No more "2 AM trips to the bathroom". Hehehe! Approx. 0,6,12,18 local time is just great!!

Cheers!!
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2010-07-20 23:39:02 - Re: Update times!!
All right, Eddy...
Way to go!!!!
I still have one in the middle of the night. :-(

But the higher resolution and faster loading are wonderful news. :-)
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2010-07-27 13:29:48 - Re: Update times!!
...finally ;)
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2010-07-27 22:15:56 - Re: Update times!!
thanks Eddie and who else were involved. Big improvement

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