Solano — marine & outdoor weather

Daily weather summary for a point, from one or more international models. Returns, per model and per LOCAL day: mean and max wind (knots), max gust, dominant wind direction, min/max temperature, total precipitation, and peak CAPE. Not hour-by-hour — follow `solano_url` for the hourly view. When the point is at sea and `include_sea_state` is true, a `sea_state` block adds sign

How much the forecast can be trusted at this point, hour by hour, from ensemble spread — Solano's own indicator, not a raw model output. Each deterministic model is compared against the members of ITS OWN reference ensemble (GFS→GEFS, ECMWF IFS→ECMWF-ENS, ICON→ICON-EPS), never against a mixed pool: the systematic offset between forecasting centres would otherwise be charged to

Thunderstorm environment at a point, scored 0-10 per hour from convective ingredients rather than from a rain field. Built on a GFS baseline that carries the full set: CAPE sharpened by the lifted index, capped by convective inhibition, then modulated by the 700-500 hPa lapse rate and 0-6 km shear. Shear also decides organisation — a severe-intensity hour with weak shear is re

The official marine forecast bulletin for the maritime zone containing a point — the text a national weather service publishes for mariners, not a model output. Providers, matched automatically to the point: Météo-France (BMR coastal), AEMET (Spain), MeteoAM (Italy), Met Office (UK inshore waters and shipping forecast). Pass `provider` to force one of `mf`, `aemet`, `meteoam`,

Marine and weather warnings in force for a point, from every official source at once — gale and storm warnings (BMS Météo-France, AEMET, MeteoAM, Met Office) plus European MeteoAlarm warnings resolved to the actual region, not the whole country. Empty list means no warning is in force, which is a real answer worth stating. Each warning carries its issuing service, validity win

High and low water times and tidal range at any point on the globe, and real water heights wherever a national almanac covers it. Two very different answers, and the difference matters: - `reference.kind == "chart_datum"` — a national tide almanac is attached to this point (Canada CHS, France api-maree.fr, Ireland Marine Institute). `height_m` is then a TRUE water height

Anchorages already analysed nearby, re-scored for comfort over the next three nights against the real forecast wind and swell. Only spots whose full shelter profile is already in Solano's shared cache are considered — work other users' analyses have already paid for. Each is scored per night (18:00 to 10:00 local) on the worst hour of the window, which is the conservative read

Directional shelter analysis of ONE precise anchorage: how protected it is from every compass direction, and how comfortable it will be over the next three days. Casts 1728 rays against a global elevation model plus OSM breakwaters and moles, giving per-direction wind protection and whether swell is blocked; then scores comfort hour by hour against the real forecast. Also retu

Which weather models actually cover a point, and which resolve convection. A regional high-resolution model hides its global parent where it is available (AROME 1.5 km over France, ICON-2I over the Mediterranean, UKV over the UK, HRDPS over Canada). `resolves_convection` marks the models fine enough to place individual storm cells rather than parametrise them — those are the o