I tried WSV3 and it was plagued with the same issues the original WS had and lacked bug fixes and stability updates which this one does too and constantly locks up, freezes and crashes on a i7 4790k chip with 16GB of RAM which is a brand new machine. I will stick with GR products.Much more reliable and I can do without all the eye candy. Same product, different name and same steep price tag for a bunch of eye candy and WSV3 is apparently under the same LLC now offering the same marketing gimmick. Hoping they do another promo in the future when the direction of development becomes clearer. GPS support is supposed to be added, so that will be helpful on WSV3. Right now I have to run 2 copies of GR3 one with reflectivity and one with velocities because they did away with those handy tabs. It's obvious that a lot of work went into the product and something that could easily replace GR3 would be nice. Gimmicky is the best way to describe it in my opinion - I hope eventually there is more development and more refinement. The level3 products are WAY too hard to change between, there's no way to step back and forth with keyboard shortcuts in a radar loop, you can't display full metars nor did I find anywhere to display other data (Spotter Network icons for example). One place I don't see a lot of potential yet is chasing.

It seems like a decent hobbyist software, and I can see a lot of uses for it and a lot of potential.

I messed around with it a bit yesterday - Probably 30-45 minutes. I'm going to explore WSV3 some more today, but not overly optimistic at this point. Perhaps, GR Earth combined with GR3 is the right solution for me at this time? GR3, while it doesn't have a fancy interface, is very functional and easy to use from a radar standpoint, and HazWX (or even TwisterData for that matter) provide very good Model analysis, and SPC MesoAnalysis web site is sufficient enough for current observations/analysis. WSV3 does not currently provide all of the data that GR3, HazWX, SPC MA provides me.

I just don't see that happening right now. I had hoped that WSV3, based on the aggressive pre-release marketing claims, would possibly be a one-stop shop for me, and replace all 3 tools. Though I am not currently a GR Earth user, I have been considering it. In general, the tools I currently use are GR Level 3 for radar, HazWX for models, and the SPC Mesoanalysis page for current obs. It has a very colorful interface that might appeal to some people, but being a long time IT guy, I'm more impressed by functionality, and data. After playing around with WSV3 for a few hours, my overall first impression is 'Gimicky'.

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