Credits | The Wind Master
The forecasts you read here are ours: we compute them, correcting the weather models with what the spot’s own anemometers actually measured, and learning from past errors. But the raw material is not ours — every measurement and every model comes from an agency, a club or a person who chose to share it. This page says where they come from, and thanks those who make them available.
The people
Brema Bounders
The crew led by Riccardo and Giorgio, two great masters of wing and of life, guardians of the marches that stretch from Brema to the far Catullan shores, for their endless ideas and nudges. Much of what is in the app today was born between a session and a risottata with them, and several things that are no longer here were shot down at that same table, with the frankness reserved for someone who has accidentally bought an aluminium foil. They gather on the water when there is wind and around a table when there is none: given the frequency, it is not entirely clear which of the two actually holds the group together.
R.E.M. — tecnico Gianni Tosatto
Special thanks for the constant contribution in testing the app and suggesting improvements.
Data sources
Official weather services
Public bodies that publish their data as open access.
- MeteoSwiss — SwissMetNet — ICON-CH1 model at 1 km, the base of our Lake Garda forecasts.
- DWD — Deutscher Wetterdienst — ICON-D2 and ICON-seamless models, plus MOSMIX pressure forecasts.
- Météo-France — AROME model at 1.3 km.
- ItaliaMeteo — ARPAE — ICON-2I model at 2.2 km, used on the Apulian spots.
- DMI — Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut — HARMONIE-AROME model over Europe.
- KNMI — HARMONIE model at 5 km.
- ECMWF — Global IFS model, used to measure disagreement between models.
- NOAA — GFS — Global GFS model, same role.
- ARPA Veneto — Regional telemetry network. — Stations: Peschiera – Dolci
- MeteoTrentino — Automatic network of the Province of Trento. — Stations: Torbole (Belvedere)
- Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano — Surface pressure at Bolzano, the northern end of the gradient that drives Pelèr and Ora.
- DHMZ — Croatian national weather service. — Stations: Opatija
- CPSM — Comune di Venezia — Tides and wind of the Venetian lagoon. — Stations: Chioggia (diga sud)
- Open-Meteo — The infrastructure that serves us every model above through a single interface. Without them this project would not exist.
Amateur networks and stations
People and clubs sharing their own measurements. They are the eyes on the spot: no model knows what the wind is doing right now — they do.
- legittimo.it — The historic Lake Garda network, and our densest source. — Stations: Brema, Campagnola, Campione, Desenzano, Malcesine, Navene, Peschiera, Torbole, Torbole 2, Toscolano
- iWind.at — Anemometers across the lake and beyond. — Stations: Campione, Cassone, Circolo Surf Torbole, Desenzano, Malcesine, Malcesine Wind Square, Manerba Dusano, Nago-Torbole, Navene, Peschiera, Pier, Preluk, Sirmione, Sottomarina, Tignale, Toscolano, Brenzone
- Centro Meteorologico Lombardo — Semi-professional Lombardy network. — Stations: Desenzano, Limone sul Garda, Peschiera del Garda, Toscolano Maderno, Varone di Riva
- MeteoNetwork — Italian amateur network. — Stations: Limone sul Garda, Nago-Torbole, Vieste
- MeteoProject — Davis Vantage Pro2 stations. — Stations: Desenzano, Malcesine
- Weather Underground — Private stations covering places nobody else reaches. — Stations: Riva del Garda, Torri del Benaco, Manerba Pieve Vecchia, Sirmione, Iseo Sassabanek, Lovere, Lesina, Torre Mileto
- wind24.it — Anemometers along the Adriatic coast. — Stations: Lesina Marina, Torre Mileto
- MeteoMincio — Station near Mantua, for the Belfiore spot. — Stations: Mantova
- kitecampione.net — The anemometer of the Campione school, which also serves Pra della Fam.
- relivecam.it — Live webcams and wind data. — Stations: Circolo Surf Torbole, Pier Water Sports
- meteosystem.com — Davis stations via WeatherLink. — Stations: Malcesine
- dkwa.it — Station on the Ferrara stretch of the Adriatic. — Stations: Lido di Volano
- Spiaggia Brema — Real-time webcam on the spot.
Other services
- RainViewer — Precipitation radar for the storm map.
- Windy — Interactive weather maps in the spot pages.
- OpenStreetMap — Base cartography for the maps.
- Aviation Weather Center — Airport METARs, for reference pressure.
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