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dekerta | 3 years ago

Windy.com has a neat feature that displays current drought conditions for the entire world:

https://www.windy.com/-Drought-intensity-awp_0_40

discuss

sokoloff|3 years ago

Interesting that windy shows Cape Ann (Gloucester, MA area) as “no drought” and the unl site has the same area as “extreme drought”.

koheripbal|3 years ago

Yeah, both data sources are very suspect.

StephenSmith|3 years ago

Why does this not line up well with the linked data, I wonder?

tony_cannistra|3 years ago

Windy.com uses the "INTERSUCHO" system from the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute. Here's the paper: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4433/12/7/913

There's a website (it's in Czech): https://intersucho.cz/

Windy.com, being developed in Europe, often uses European datasets.

ninkendo|3 years ago

Looks like windy.com is showing short-term trends, perhaps driven by things like “how long since it last rained”, etc. Michigan is showing severe drought, and then you set the date to the 12th and it all clears to normal (there’s rain in the forecast around then.)

It’s a lot different than the long term trends driven by total annual precipitation, snowpack, etc.

kickout|3 years ago

windy is my favorite website. Absolutely loved it from day1. Wonder if anyone on that team is a HNer

mistrial9|3 years ago

great "eye candy" but posts here now are raising questions about the accuracy of the windy data models

kristopolous|3 years ago

https://earth.nullschool.net is pretty nice

ktzar|3 years ago

I still prefer ventusky. Nice ux, fast and accurate.

Cthulhu_|3 years ago

Nice, my neck of the woods is absolutely parched :D. Some rain predicted this week though. I heard France was really bad but it doesn't look too bad in comparison.