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This is a major upgrade for us, and I am pleased to finally announce it, although I had hoped the new tables would be ready but they shouldn't be too much longer.
I am making this announcement a little earlier than planned because I was recently contacted by MDA, who provides us with some GFS maps and the current version of the Euro. They will now be sending the GFS and GEFS on a 30 min. delay, but that won't impact subscribers as all of our GFS maps are in real time, and faster than most have access to already.
As far as the Euro, I was informed that the 850T/QPF map would no longer be sent, and the 500 mb map would be on a 2 hour delay. It is for that reason that I have decided to unveil these even though the new tables aren't ready yet.
I would also like to take this opportunity to thank MDA for their affiliation and support of SV from the start.
At this point, I won't go into what packages will be offered, as there will be additional ones coming soon.
Enough of the background, now for the details.
As stated, we will have the Euro in 6 hour increments from hour 0 to 240!
Here are the 2 tables to be used until we have the new portal working:
http://www.stormvist...roSamples0z.htm
http://www.stormvist...oSamples12z.htm
I want to point out the very first column titled MSLP, QPF, THK, 2MT/850 0 Line.
I am not sure I have ever seen an ECMWF map quite like this one before, this one should be quite popular in winter. It is showing the all of those parameters on one map, and the thickness map is something new to most. I had planned to do this as 2 maps, with the other having the 32 deg. line and qpf on it, but after I had the original map made, Don thought it would be cool to plot it all on one, so there it is!
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Plotting the 1000-500 Mb THK was a little bit of an interesting story also. It's not provided as part of the data file we use to plot. Back when I was in college taking Met classes, we were taught a formula that isn't taught anymore, and many never heard of, so I dug that out of my mind and applied it to add the thickness!
The other 3 parameters available to Gold Subscribers are 2M T, 850 Mb T, and 500 Mb Hgt, MSLP for the U.S.
I know I said I wasn't going to discuss packages, but I will say that the next package up will actually have several more plots, including some of these plotted over different domains, and be in real time.
There were hard decisions that had to be made. Before we took this on, a price hike was planned because our server costs have gone up a factor of 14 over 2 years, and we never raised prices, partly because the former original owner was needed to accomplish this. Fortunately we have had good growth in Gold. The value of these maps is much higher than $15 per month, so I had to try to find a happy medium, so that the price increase wouldn't be too large. For that reason, these maps will be on a 30 minute delay. Even at that, it will probably be faster than many other sites, and these are nice maps, and I'm not just saying that because I am the one who plotted them lol
For those who want a larger view of the NHEM, the other plots, and real time, we decided to offer a higher package, which we will be announcing soon.
I got a little creative and have other sets of plots involving the Euro also, that will be revealed very soon.
As stated in the ownership change thread, I was brought here to handle the data end of things, and I am proud of the strong growth in this area over the last 2 years, and I have had a lot of help along the way, especially from Don, (but also a few others) who somehow has managed to teach me some programming, so if he can do THAT, he must be good lol.
The goal is to continue to provide high quality data, and that is where my focus is. From the start, I didn't want to be part of something that had "just a couple of extra maps", and nothing has made me happier than making all of the announcements we have made over 2 years for all of our additions. And there have been a lot of announcements, considering we built up from maybe 10,000 images per day created, to well over half a million per day now, but this has been the biggest (so far).
We have a number of subscribers who have been with us from day 1, and I would like to also take this opportunity to thank them for their patronage, and support.
I would suggest that all Gold subscribers to use those links above for the Euro from here on out. We have quite a number of subscribers who are not part of the forum. I am hoping some will view this thread as a guest. Unfortunately I will not be able to contact all who aren't members, by hand, this is why I always suggest registering for the forum, and visiting, so they can keep up with the latest news.
