WSUP Viewer 3.0 Release - Forums - Whole Story Uncertainty & Probabilities Viewer

WSUP Viewer v3.0 was released on 4/8/2021. Please see version notes below.

New Features:

• NBM 1D:

  • Created by NWS Western Region SOOs, NBM 1D is now available by left clicking on the WSUP map. It can be accessed directly via this URL: https://wsup.mdl.nws.noaa.gov/1d

  • Added capability to view all 24 hourly runs of NBM. The most recent 24 hours are available for display.

  • Added capability to click anywhere on the 1D pull-out map (not just predefined locations) to retrieve the full elemental suite of meteograms for the nearest grid point.

• Map Display:

  • New GEFS Bias-Corrected elements:

    • 10-m Wind Speed and Wind Speed SD

    • Upper Air:

      • Wind Speed and Wind Speed SD

      • Absolute Vorticity

      • Thickness

      • Shear

  • GEFS Raw

    • In addition to GEFS Bias-Corrected elements, GEFS Raw offers the following:

      • QPF06 and Total QPF

      • Snow06 and Total Snow

      • PWAT and PWAT SD

      • SBCAPE and SBCAPE SD

      • SBCIN and SBCIN SD

      • Upper-level RH and RH SD

    • Various snow:liquid ratios offered for Snow and Total Snow

  • NBM grid-based wind barbs

    • Wind barbs can now be viewed at grid points instead of stations by turning off the station-based option for 10-m wind barbs on the map view options pull-out menu.

  • Added button to generate shortened shareable link

• Point Vis:

  • The next release will include GEFS Raw and additional GEFS Bias-Corrected elements.

Bug Fixes:

• Map Display:

  • Migrated imagery from a memory-based cache to a disk-based cache, resulting in a more stable user experience.

  • The very lowest values now display for NBM QPF and snow amount elements.  Snow values greater than 63” are no longer transparent.

  • The progress spinning wheel no longer appears when the map display is zoomed out too far to meet the contours reveal value.

  • In the pull-out menu that shows projection hours, any hour with an element image that fails to load is now grayed out and not selectable. This failure no longer counts as progress in the corresponding day span of the forecast slider.

  • When generating screen captures using Chrome in Chrome OS, erroneous dashes are no longer inserted after hyphens in the legend.

• Point Vis:

  • None

Known Issues:

• Map Display:

  • Southern hemisphere grid-based wind barbs are drawn with flags on the same side of the arm as in the northern hemisphere.

• Point Vis:

  • In dProg/dt mode, the vertical line in the top chart that corresponds to the date/time of the wind rose and violin plots will become skewed at times. Moving the bottom slider will return the line to vertical.

• 1D:

  • Forecast selection menus on 1D (and Point Vis) do not update available model cycle times without manually refreshing the page.

  • Only predefined points have observed data.   We will look at including RTMA observations for grid points in a future release.

  • There is currently no way to save custom points for future use other than to bookmark the URL.

- The WSUP Viewer Team (David Ruth, Dana Strom, David T. Miller, Kevin M. McGrath, Timothy Kempisty)