Skew-t

Alan Walls

About this app

Skew-T Log-P diagrams are commonly used for weather analysis and forecasting. They graph weather balloon data to show the vertical profile of the temperature and dew point through the atmosphere.

See the following Finger Lakes Soaring Club web link for a great article describing how glider pilots use skew-t graphs to predict weather for a days flight.
http://www.flsc.org/portals/12/PDF/Read_Skew_T.pdf

Features:
Uses data from http://rucsoundings.noaa.gov/
Automatically download the day's weather data
Use the slider to quickly view all hour-by-hour graphs.
Zoom to inspect the graph details
Configurable units and graph lines
Use different weather models
Show forecast graphs for the next few days
Saved favorites to quickly view different locations and/or weather models.
Here mode uses GPS to easily get graphs for your current location.
Load waypoints from files.

Ratings and reviews

Very useful! Maybe a short description of how to use the thermal trigger and other 'what if' scenarios in the quick start guide would be helpful to learn how to use it properly, but with a bit of patience it will come to you once you experiment with it for a bit. ### Don`t forget to give the app storage and location permissions in settings/apps/sqew-t, otherwise it will not keep your favourite locations and you will not be albe to use the map for location selection! ###

It was a decent app, though not truly necessary as all the data can be found on the Web. But now it wants access to everything on the phone to function at all. It's not going to happen. Absolutely not. I understand the desire to log for debugging purposes, but let's just put it this way: HELL NO. You do not need this for routine operation.

Not bad for what it is. Just need some clarification on certain things, most importantly are the model times on the slider Zulu or local? It's pretty important. I see others have asked the same. With a little spiffing up here and there it could be great.

What's new

Android version update