Synoptic charts & the platforms

Context for the resort-level charts: where the systems are, and where the community goes for the loops we cannot reproduce here.

ECMWF open charts

Licensed CC BY 4.0 and explicitly embeddable — the primary-source replacement for the platforms further down, whose terms refuse reproduction.

MSLP & 850 hPa wind The synoptic picture — where the lows and fronts are.
Open on charts.ecmwf.int ↗

© ECMWF — charts.ecmwf.int, CC BY 4.0

500 hPa height & 850 hPa temperature The steering flow and the cold air behind the front.
Open on charts.ecmwf.int ↗

© ECMWF — charts.ecmwf.int, CC BY 4.0

Windy — interactive

Windy's official embed widget, centred on the Snowy Mountains. Loaded lazily so it costs nothing until it scrolls into view.

Windy.com

Chart platforms — link-out only

These are links, not chart coverage. Each of these sites' terms refuse reproduction of their imagery, so they appear as deep links to the origin — which is how the community reaches them anyway, and it keeps their traffic where it belongs. Nothing here is rendered by us.

Tropical Tidbits

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Levi Cowan's free site — source of most GFS/EPS/AIFS Australia-domain panels posted in-thread.

C · link-out card Cred B chart-platform link-out only embed refused Phase 1 live

Highest-frequency chart source in the threads (20+ uploads). Ships as a deep-linked Tier C card until the audit says otherwise — never hotlink the .gif files.

Pivotal Weather

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Source of the recurring ECMWF full-res forecast loops and 9-km EC snowfall panels.

C · link-out card Cred B chart-platform link-out only embed refused Phase 1 live

Some products now behind Pivotal Plus. Card must not imply free access to paywalled loops.

Meteologix / Kachelmannwetter

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The "modez" (ECMWF) Australian panels, sub-seasonal anomaly charts and rapid-update animations.

C · link-out card Cred B chart-platform link-out only not yet cleared Phase 1 live

Meteologix AU snowline & 0 °C isotherm charts

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The KB sticky's canonical snow-level links — EC snowline and GFS 0 °C isotherm height.

C · link-out card Cred B chart-platform link-out only not yet cleared Phase 1 live

DUAL ROLE: also the ground-truth cross-check for our own snow-level panel. QA ticket P1-7 sanity-checks our thickness-derived snow level against this product for the same run.

Jane's Weather

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Australian multi-model aggregator graphing EC/GFS/ACCESS side by side per location; linked from the KB sticky.

C · link-out card Cred B point-forecast link-out only embed refused Phase 1 live

Closest existing analogue to our Phase 1 comparison view. Worth a card and worth studying.

Phil Hart snow forecasts

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Community-built resort snow-level/precip dashboard on Open-Meteo with transparent thickness-based methodology.

C · link-out card Cred C community-tool link-out only Phase 1 live

PRIOR ART, not a competitor. Our Phase 1 is the same idea done wider. Credit him explicitly on the snow-level panel and in /credits. Do not scrape.