Boater my friends who love regattas and offshore racing, if you are provided with excellent French instrumentation NKE (¹), enjoy ! With the last version 2.0.81 Weather4D Routing & Navigation User Guides now supports full transfer of performance data to NKE's Topline bus. Uninformed weather4D users abstain… Read more …
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GRIB2 weather files in Weather4D
With version Routing & Navigation User Guides 2.0.81, Weather4D supports weather files in GRIB2 format by external download. For example, the very high resolution ICON-D2 model (¹) from Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD) for Northern Europe can be opened in the app. Read more …
Weather4D sur Mac M1
We have been talking about it since 2020 in the Facebook group of Weather4D users, and often in the support, Weather4D Routing & Navigation now works on Mac with M1 processors, with the system MacOS 11.x ("Big Sur" and following). All you need to do is connect the Mac to a GPS receiver or a NMEA gateway via Wi-Fi to receive the position and navigation data from the instruments.. Read more …
Weather4D User Guides and SplitView Feature [Update]
For those who don't know yet, from iOS 11 it is possible to run two applications simultaneously on an iPad in landscape mode (¹). This is particularly useful for consulting the User Guides depending versions of Weather4D while handling the application. Read more …
Weather4D Routing User Guide
New publication of User Guide with Weather4D Routing in French version. Warning, It's about a New version to download which replaces the previous one (¹). The old guide should be removed from your library in the Apple Books app. Read more …
Weather4D Lite User Manual
New publication of User Guide with Weather4D Lite in French version. Warning, It's about a New version to download which replaces the previous one (¹). The old guide should be removed from your library in the Apple Books app. Read more …
Alternative weather models [Update]
[Updated 29 July 2022]
For several years, forecast files in GRIB format have been widely used in meteorological applications.. The majority of forecast models have been made freely available by the meteorological services, all countries included. Applications like XyGrib, LuckGrib, SailGrib, Weather4D and other, offer a selection of atmospheric and oceanic models, up to 25 weather models and 15 waves and currents models for Weather4D, more than thirty models with LuckGrib, in example. But there are always others that can usefully complement the standard offerings of these applications.. Read more …
Predict thunderstorms with Weather4D
In Weather4D (all versions) most weather models provide a data calledCAPE.
Convective Available Potential Energy, in French : Energie potentielle de convection disponible. Behind this abstruse acronym hides a powerful tool for forecasting thunderstorms. The CAPE is measured in joules per kilogram of air (J / Kg) and defines the vertical thrust energy of a hot air particle in a colder atmosphere. In other words, vertical acceleration of the air particle will be directly related to this energy measurement. Read more …
The Logbook in Weather4D Routing & Navigation User Guides
With update 2.0.57 Entering a logbook is now available in Weather4D Routing & Navigation User Guides. Data transfer to web interface Navygatio (¹) allows logbook entries to be recorded in near-real or delayed time depending on whether or not there is an internet connection during navigation. Read more …
Weather4D and iOS Local Network
From iOS / iPadOS version 14.5, a new setting has appeared proposing to allow application access to the Local network. This option is offered when installing a new application, but is not necessarily activated if the application is already installed when updating the OS.
Since then, many of you can no longer connect certain applications (Weather4D, iNavX, aso.) to devices connected via Wi-Fi : Iridium GO!®, multiplexers, various NMEA gateways. To do this, you must activate this "Local network" option for the application concerned. Read more …