I’ve just released 2017, Build 1.3, the only change to WXSIM being due to a discovery I think I just made about the GFS model. Now that we’re within 10 days of the eclipse, I used NOAA READY to look at temperature and downward shortwave radiation flux in GFS forecasts for Atlanta (97% coverage) and a point a bit north of here where it’s total. In the three-hourly data, I cannot see any evidence that they’ve programmed the eclipse in! I could be wrong, but there’s seemingly no effect in those forecasts (in the form of dips in those two outputs).
On the other hand, WXSIM CAN take this into account, and I’m very excited for North American users (including where it’s only partial) to set up the eclipse tool so that the effects will be included. What’s new in Build 1.3 is that I omitted any temperature effect from WXSIM-Lite data during the eclipse, as I didn’t want that “bad” data mixed in during that critical time! Also, I’ve incorporated the new autolearn and wret versions into the installer for both upgrade and demo. To upgrade now, use this
I can answer questions about the eclipse tool, but it has help with it and maybe you can figure it out anyway.
It will be fascinating to compare forecast versus actual temperature curves on eclipse day!!
Tom