I bit the bullet this winter and spent 5-6 hours mostly through youtube videos learning the basics so that soundings and skew charts don't look totally foreign to me. I am absolutely amazed at just how much information gets packed into those sounding/skew images that metrologist post on social media. Now I'm trying to dig into all mesoanaylais abbreviations one finds on the soundings, teach myself what exactly it's measuring, why it's being measured, how it interacts with other meso indices, how it's displayed on the nws mesoanaylais maps, that many times like to display many indices at once on the same map. I would pay a nice amount for software similar to space engine/Microsoft flight simulator, that allows you to play around and learn about weather through interactive 3D simulation. Be able to tweak the soundings as well as the low strengths at different levels, moisture, basically everything you can see on a meso map and let the statistical model make an approximation. Have past major weather events simulated so one can explore them from start to finish. Best hope I probably have at ever seeing anything close to that would probably be some add on to new Microsoft flight simulator 2024 since it already has live weather integration. My one friend has invested many thousands in his simulator setup over the years and the graphics on this new version are amazing. Just all overkill for weather only. Sent from my SM-G970U1 using Tapatalk
