Spain - Soaring Weather API
Spain coverage is benchmarked and queued for the next Convek release. Mainland Spain plus the Balearics in one domain, with the Canaries treated as a separate small domain. Pyrenees, Sistema Central, the Granada sites, the long Castilian flatland XC days.
Planned specifications
What Spain coverage will include
Same JSON contract as live regions. Final field list confirmed when Spain 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 Spain
Spain produces some of the longest cross-country flights in Europe. The plateau days out of Ávila, the Pyrenean ridge work, the Sierra Nevada thermals, and the Levante coastal sea-breeze interactions all need a regional model to forecast cleanly. A 25 km global cell averages most of them away.
The mainland-and-Balearics domain is benchmarked at about 1h50m end-to-end at 4 km on the current worker. That is heavy for a single forecast box, and the timing of the Spain launch will depend on whether the box gets a second worker or whether the schedule is restructured to keep cycles fresh.
Canaries flying is its own thing. The Lanzarote and Tenerife trade-wind ridges and the windward valleys in Gran Canaria are too far from the mainland to share a sensible WRF rectangle, so they get a separate small domain when Spain launches. Day-window and sounding labels will use Europe/Madrid for mainland and Atlantic/Canary for the islands.
Want Spain coverage next?
Join the waitlist. We email when Spain goes live, and waitlist demand drives launch order.