Australia - Soaring Weather API
Australia coverage is on the radar. The east-coast paragliding scene, the long flatland XC out of Tocumwal and Narromine, the Bright and Manilla weeks - waitlist demand will pick the first launch region.
Planned specifications
What Australia coverage will include
Same JSON contract as live regions. Final field list confirmed when Australia goes live.
Thermal Strength
wstar_ms - thermal updraft velocity in m/s
Soaring Height
hglider_agl_m + hglider_msl_m - usable thermalling height
Cloudbase
cloudbase_agl_ft + cloudbase_msl_m, Cu potential, OD risk
Wind
surface_wind_* plus wind_925_*, wind_850_*, wind_800_*, wind_700_*
Trigger Temperature
thermal_trigger_temp_c - surface temperature at which thermals fire
Day Rating
day_rating - poor, marginal, fair, good, excellent
Corridor Sampling
Weather along a route - time-aware available
Sounding Profile
Full vertical profile - temp, dewpoint, wind
About soaring weather in Australia
Australia is too large to treat as one launch region. The Manilla and Bright paragliding scenes, the long-distance gliding out of Tocumwal, Narromine and Benalla, the Eastern Highlands wave, and the Western Australian thermal-and-coastal mix are all very different forecast jobs.
ACCESS-G is the obvious public reference for Australian weather. The question for Convek is whether a regional WRF adds enough soaring-specific signal over a soaring post-process on ACCESS to justify the compute. The answer is probably 'yes for the south-eastern Highlands, depends elsewhere'.
Australia is a future region rather than a current one, but the API contract you build against UK or Alpine coverage today is the same one Australia will use the day it goes live.
Want Australia coverage next?
Join the waitlist. We email when Australia goes live, and waitlist demand drives launch order.