Meteorology Academy
Weather tools designed for your lessons.
These bespoke training visualisations have been created to aid your learning and keep lessons interactive.
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These tools run from a live operational model, so we can visualise current weather.
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The visualisations will enhance your understanding as we go through the syllabus, supporting both PPL and ATPL awareness.
Grids have been produced here from the same data but at a lower resolution. During the course of the lessons, these plots can be zoomed in on to discuss particular points. This could include things like gradient upon which frontal system sit.
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I have chosen key charts such as the Jetstream level winds and Wetbulb Potential Temp as you will see throughout the course what a useful tool they can be.
Tephigrams
One of the most important tools in meteorology, and by far one of the biggest eye openers. These charts offer a plethora of information from understanding current weather to modifying them to understand the forecast. This chart combines real balloon data with modelled, so you can see how the models have handled current conditions. A confidence level that is missed in todays flight planning.
Compare recent winds and temp with model
forecasts
Why not take a look at how that weather front impacted the surface.
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We will see that a front may have been generated miles away from how the upper winds were positioned.
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We will now understand ahead of time why that wind peaked so much.
This chart has been created as an impact chart. Each location is an aerodrome. Instead of the complex overview, such as charts displayed above, the weather impact is only displayed for the chosen locations. They still represent the weather spatially, but make it simpler and relavant.
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When complete, the impact based traffic light chart will be usable from this from website. It will enable a forecast based upon an algorithm designed for flying. Its a quick heads up to see if your chosen airfields are red, amber or green
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