Skewt
Skew-T sounding viewer for pilots, finally on Android
What it does
Skewt draws Skew-T Log-P soundings natively on your phone: forecast anywhere by map tap, search or GPS, plus the latest radiosonde from the nearest North American station. CAPE, CIN, LCL, LFC and freezing level from MetPy. Offline cache, 14-day trial
Skewt turns forecast and observed soundings into an interactive chart built for a phone, with the indices that usually get eyeballed computed alongside it.
A real skew-T, drawn for a phone screen instead of shrunk onto one. Read a real skew-T for any location — tap the map, search a place, or use where you are. Scrub through the forecast hours and watch the profile change instead of reading one snapshot. Get CAPE, CIN, LCL, LFC, and the freezing level computed alongside the chart rather than eyeballed off it. A skew-T log-P diagram is one of the most useful and least accessible tools in preflight weather. It shows where the layers are, gives a far better forecast of cloud tops than any textual product, and matters enormously for flying where terrain and marine air interact. Reading one usually means a desktop-oriented model site, or falling…from 42nddesign.com
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