Does exactly what’s needed
I had expected that there would be quite a few synoptic chart download apps out there. Not so. Fortunately, Isobar does a great job at this particular need. It will download the charts from UKMO and let you flip between the forecast maps easily making a quick analysis possible. The app is a great example of choose what to implement and do it well: it doesn’t do anything else. Kudos to the developers!
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Isobars
This app finally shows the barometric information that is missing from the Met Office app. The Met app used to be very good but ‘dumbed’ down around the time the BBC stopped using their services exclusively. Now at last I can see the ‘weather’ coming at us from the West. If an overlay is possible it would be useful to superimpose the shipping sea areas and perhaps the coastal stations to coincide with the Shipping Forecast. Although not at the cost of losing the wide view currently offered.
I learnt to draw these charts many years ago and can still interpret them up to a point. Forecasting is so much easier with all the different weather condition radars now, but it is still predicting the future and sometimes a look out of the window will give you more idea of what will happen. In any event as we live where we do always take your biggest coat, sunglasses and snowshoes just in case!
I learnt to draw these charts many years ago and can still interpret them up to a point. Forecasting is so much easier with all the different weather condition radars now, but it is still predicting the future and sometimes a look out of the window will give you more idea of what will happen. In any event as we live where we do always take your biggest coat, sunglasses and snowshoes just in case!
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Isobar
It would be OK but the red overlay covering the area of interest masks the isobaric and ‘frontal’ detail which renders it pretty useless really.