Bob Hartig
EF5
With a thread underway that compares sources for forecast maps (HazWx vs Twisterdata vs CoD), I thought I'd see who's using what for forecast soundings.
There are four free sources that I'm aware of: Twisterdata, CoD, Earl Barker, and Bufkit. Of these, I find the first two to be the most convenient: just point and click for the sounding you want. Earl Barker's is great but more involved, and Bufkit is purely awesome, but I just don't get how to use it, and the times in the past when I made the attempt, it seemed inordinately time-consuming. So for quick-and-easy soundings, I opt for TD and CoD.
I also purchased RAOB plus several of its modules some years ago. There's nothing else like it--it's like Bufkit on steroids, but it's much easier to use, it processes data from just about any source you can throw at it, and its hodographs are the ultimate. For me, it's kind of like owning an atomic cannon to hunt squirrels with, but I wouldn't trade it for anything.
So for me: CoD and Twisterdata for fast skew-Ts and RAOB for in-depth soundings.
Who else is using what? Does anyone besides me use RAOB?
There are four free sources that I'm aware of: Twisterdata, CoD, Earl Barker, and Bufkit. Of these, I find the first two to be the most convenient: just point and click for the sounding you want. Earl Barker's is great but more involved, and Bufkit is purely awesome, but I just don't get how to use it, and the times in the past when I made the attempt, it seemed inordinately time-consuming. So for quick-and-easy soundings, I opt for TD and CoD.
I also purchased RAOB plus several of its modules some years ago. There's nothing else like it--it's like Bufkit on steroids, but it's much easier to use, it processes data from just about any source you can throw at it, and its hodographs are the ultimate. For me, it's kind of like owning an atomic cannon to hunt squirrels with, but I wouldn't trade it for anything.
So for me: CoD and Twisterdata for fast skew-Ts and RAOB for in-depth soundings.
Who else is using what? Does anyone besides me use RAOB?
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