180S 20 Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 I see my favourite weather App has been “ taken offline indefinitely”, anybody know the story behind this ? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Clipper 375 Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 That sux. Hope it comes back, love that app. Its what the cg app should have been Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Clive 13 Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 WindDan was Awesome! Went to check the wind at Bean Rock this morning and it's gone! Anyone know Daniel Pooley as he wrote it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dtwo 157 Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 Bugger Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Winter 42 Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 WindDan was Awesome! Went to check the wind at Bean Rock this morning and it's gone! Anyone know Daniel Pooley as he wrote it. Don't know him but I just emailed him to ask the question.. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bigal.nz 61 Posted July 30, 2019 Share Posted July 30, 2019 That sucks. It was the best. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Black Panther 1,767 Posted July 30, 2019 Share Posted July 30, 2019 Bugger. Just went to check it as i have two forecasts for today. One sunny and 12kn westerly the other 35kn westerly with thunder and hail. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jon 412 Posted July 31, 2019 Share Posted July 31, 2019 Bugger. Just went to check it as i have two forecasts for today. One sunny and 12kn westerly the other 35kn westerly with thunder and hail. Go with the first one, I would as it’s much nicer Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Black Panther 1,767 Posted July 31, 2019 Share Posted July 31, 2019 Looks like they were both right. Ive had sun, rain and thunder. And wind from 0 to 35 and now back to 5. Maybe give up trying to sail and go to bed with a good book. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sudden5869 17 Posted July 31, 2019 Share Posted July 31, 2019 That sux. Hope it comes back, love that app. Its what the cg app should have been Exactly. WindDan was great to checking the all of the NowCasting conditions at once. Hopefully CoastGuard will pick up the idea at some stage. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Clipper 375 Posted August 2, 2019 Share Posted August 2, 2019 Is there a way of viewing nowcasts online, outside of cg app or pw subscription? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jantar 16 Posted August 2, 2019 Share Posted August 2, 2019 For good wind forecasts try https://www.windy.com/?-41.286,174.772,5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Plato 13 Posted August 2, 2019 Share Posted August 2, 2019 Coastguard says it will be below 15kts? What's the panic? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fujo 3 Posted August 2, 2019 Share Posted August 2, 2019 I would rather pay the coastguard to use Winddan. Much nicer experience. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Winter 42 Posted August 2, 2019 Share Posted August 2, 2019 His email address bounced back undeliverable.. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
khayyam 101 Posted August 5, 2019 Share Posted August 5, 2019 huh. I find it hard to believe that nobody here knows! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
SMU's Crew 4 Posted November 14, 2019 Share Posted November 14, 2019 Has anyone found a good alternative to Winddan? Finding myself frustrated when at home without vhf wondering what all the wind conditions are currently! Not forecasting...need the nowcasting. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Priscilla II 450 Posted November 14, 2019 Share Posted November 14, 2019 Crikey Metservice can finally landscape, it's a miracle. https://www.metservice.com/ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dtwo 157 Posted December 3, 2019 Share Posted December 3, 2019 An opportunity for someone to contribute positively towards stuff that would benefit a lot of us yachties. I emailed CoastGuard to point out that Winddan was really useful to the yachting community. I've had a response from them to ask if I'd like to contribute to a focus group in February. I'm planning to be in the South Island but offered to see if I could find a replacement. I would stress that the person involved needs to approach this with a constructive, open-minded and positive attitude, otherwise nothing will happen. I would suggest we could discuss suggestions on-line before the focus group, with the aim of taking some useful suggestions along. I think this point needs to be stressed as there can be, sometimes, just a little, tiny wee bit of negativity and whinging about things. I'm sure that mostly this is as a result of the difficulty in creating the "tone" in writing, but it could be that some of us are just crusty old grumps. Would anyone like to put their hand up? Follows is my email to CG: "Hi, I just thought I would give you some input into the way Coastguard is using Nowcasting. I am a sailor and have always found Nowcasting extremely valuable when doing long passages. You are (were) able to compare the weather forecast with actual conditions and accurately monitor a predicted weather change in real time. This contributed greatly to safety and enjoyment. The example I would use is sailing from Napier to Auckland. East Cape is a nasty little place to round and with Nowcasting you could sit in Napier and watch the predicted weather as it went through, timing your trip up from Napier to ensure that you reached East Cape at the appropriate time. I would use a website called Winddan, which showed the information in an easily accessible format on my laptop (not really a smartphone guy). You could watch the entire picture as the weather pattern moved through, scrolling around the different Nowcasting stations as required. This was a huge boon to safety and enjoyment. Winddan is no longer operating and there seems to be no web-based access to any Nowcasting information, that I can find anyway. I can listen to VHF and get local conditions, which is helpful in some situations, but I can’t access remote weather. This takes us back in time when actual weather conditions were unknown. I appreciate there is an App that I guess is a money making thing for CG. However the thrust of this app, from what I have seen advertised, seems to be to fishos in tinnies going out for a day. We live on board and are moving around regularly and the fishing-related stuff is not particularly relatable. What I would hope for from CG is a more sailing friendly method of sharing the weather info that you have. If there was an app that related to what I need, I would probably even buy a phone. I’m not going to pretend I speak for other yachties, hopefully you find this email useful. And – thank you for being there!" 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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