Options Weather

Select Options on the Tools menu, and then click the Weather tab to open Weather Options.

Area

Item

Description

Settings

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Legend date/time

  • None - shows no time or date in the legend.
  • Time Only - shows only the time of the last update for the product.
  • Time/day - Shows the time and day (numeric) of the last update for the product.
    For example: 15:20/20.
  • Time/date - Shows the date and the time of the last update for the product.
    For example: 07/20/2017 15:20

Display model run time (if applicable)

Select to indicate that you would like to see the last time that the forecast model ran. This only applies to weather products with a forecast.

During the model run, it will create multiple forecast in the furture. For example, if the model runs at 03:00 and is set to create a forecast every three hours, the model creates a forecast for 06:00, 09:00, 12:00 and so on.

Display Animation Legend On Screen

Select to have the weather legend / time line to appear at the bottom of the screen.

Show Full Product Detail in Legend

Select to show the weather product detail in the legend.

Show NEXRAD/Satellite/Rainfall Color Tables in Legend

Select to show the special weather color tables in the legend.

Weather Overlay Drop-down Menu

Select how the menu should appear, as a Default List or Grouped by Product type.

Enable Satellite hot tips

Select if hot tip should appear in the map display when hovering on Satellite products

Always Load / Record

 

 

 

Always Load

Selecting one or more weather products causes them to be loaded each time they are updated, even if the product is not in the current view and on-screen. Useful with the animation feature to ensure that all past slides are available.

Note  By default, weather products are only loaded from the server when they are on-screen and a new version becomes available. This can cause a problem with animation. If the animated product is not currently on-screen, an update might not be loaded, causing a gap in the animation sequence. With Always Load, weather products can be loaded even if they are not selected for display in Flight Explorer.

 

Record

Flight Explorer records the associated weather product when in record mode. Select a product for Auto Load to make the Record feature available.

Flight Explorer must be running for weather to be loaded (even if in the autoload list). If Flight Explorer is started after not running for a while, animations will take a while to show all slides (up to 8x the product update interval).