Oh come on, you haven’t upset me, I’m just showing you something about the flaws within the way the overlays have been set.
Take a good look at the darkest areas within this image, you’ll see that the darkest areas contain the highest levels of visual detail compared to the rest of the image.
And it should not be doing that, as the highest visual detail area is occurring where the rainfall level information available from the model is actually almost non-existent, it’s down at the 1 mm to 5 mm level, so the detail in that area is being way over represented within that image.
Now look at the brightest (skin-tone) pink areas within that same image. Those brightest pink areas are of course where the actual rainfall information supplied by the supercomputers at ECMWF are at their highest level, within the model’s output ‘product’. But as you can see within the default Windy overlay image that’s where the visual detail which is by far the most relevant to human beings, is actually completely absent from 500 mm increment level up in the default overlay display.
My replacement overlay of the same area shows that rainfall as high as ~950 mm is actually being forecast within parts of that brightest pink area (see the blues near Taiwan).
But none of that rain intensity is visible within Windy’s default overlay. The more important information for human beings is cutoff at the 500 mm level and anything above that is effectively assigned to one color and made invisible, because the next increment in the display line is set at 8,000 mm, a jump of 7,500 mm, which is 62.5 times higher than the previous increment, which was 120 mm!
So the most important rain forecasting information for humans is thus made invisible when using Windy’s default overlays.
This is just one of the flaws I’ve removed within the precipitation overlays. So if you say to me that you think my overlay is showing the “wrong information”, compared to the default, I’m of course going to tell you just how wretched the default display really is at displaying about 60% of the available information range it should show. The default display setting is basically heavily biased, and biased in entirely the wrong way, because where there’s the least rainfall detail available there’s the most visual details displayed, and where there‘s the most rainfall information available, there is no visual detail of it being displayed at all.
i.e. this is why a linear display with closer increments is the way to display the entire information range available and not just the lowest 40% of it.
As you said, “I do not consider that Windy color settings are perfect”.
Yes, that’s understating it. Many of them are not displaying the majority of the information range available and most of them are non-linear and biasing the display to show the least details where they should be showing the most details. So I’d say they're quite a long way from perfect, and that's not to be tip-toed around.
I said this to you at the beginning, if you remember:
“ ... People can also edit them, as they see fit, and even use them as a template to do that if they wish, to their heart's content. If they make something even better then they can post their edit in here, or elsewhere, and all benefit. …”
https://community.windy.com/post/15935
I meant that. ;-)
