@korina what we are struggling with is whether the API can be used to display windy forecast layers native within an app. All examples we can find on the forum are browser based or are using a browser window inside of an app to display windy data. Is the browser a limitation of the API or are there examples anyone knows of where the data has been displayed natively within an app?

@mzarban Hello, could you please specify what product did you try to purchase? Was it Windy Premium or Windy Professional API license?

Both products can be purchased via credit card or PayPal.

@imsinar Hello, please send me the results from https://www.whatsmydnsserver.com/, if you want via PM.

@domex You can find the full documentation at api.windy.com.

@regina244 I recommend to visit - https://api4.windy.com/

I am happy to announce a significant improvement to the data quality availability through the windy radiosonde plugin, related to the backend service

in summary:

we have MUCH better coverage in high-resolution ascents since two days, as well as new stations appeared which had no coverage at all so far

this is thanks to a patch developed by windy's formidable Mr Karpíšek @FILIP_K which is running in the backend now - congratulations, Filip!

the gory detail:

radiosonde ascents are distributed in two formats, a telex-oriented legacy format called FM35, and a more recent high-resolution format called FM94 (or BUFR in meteospeak)

due to redundant data feeds, we receive both formats for many stations - if for a given station a high-res view is available, that is given preference - if we do not have something else, we fall back to the legacy format

I've been running this backend service for close to a year or so, and I always wondered why for some stations we have a strange form of coverage: sometimes we get hi-res data, but in many cases just legacy format. And there was no obvious pattern recognizable why this is so. My initial suspicion was that this was just an artefact of some data feeds which we have no control over, so have to live with it.

This manifested itself most visibly in Russian radiosonde ascents, but - as we later found out - has affected data from many other countries as well.

Following an in-depth exchange with helpful friends in Russia, it became clear we better search for errors in our software. I detected a smell in a central piece of code, and Filip came up with a key improvement in no time flat.

I very happy to have that mystery resolved.

You can probe yourself:

Hohhot ZBHH (China, WMO id: 53463) - visible in hi-res since two days, no previous data same for  Lhasa ZULS (WMO id: 55591),  Ezeiza Aero SAEZ (WMO id: 87576), Neuquen Aero SAZN (WMO id: 87715) Bechar DAOR (Algeria, WMO id: 60571) - hi-res now, previously only legacy format all Russian stations are hi-res now AFAICT ascents distributed via NMC Denmark and Meteo France als improved in quality

I am pretty sure this service is now best-of-class as far as publically accessible sources of radiosonde ascents worldwide go!

@sdolotom There is no only right way to do so. You could perhaps have a look at what meteoblue has to say about this topic (section Quantification of cloud cover) https://content.meteoblue.com/en/specifications/weather-variables/clouds

@korina thanks!

@korina nevermind. I found the page explaining the URL format. Thanks for your help!

@asm12 Hello, I would recommend to have a look at Windy plugin at https://www.windy.com/-Embed-widget-on-page/widgets?rain,45.655,9.071,6

@emin90 Hello, you can find the full documentation at https://api4.windy.com/

@mateusff Hello, API does not allow you to use it with your own data.

@collingwoodbh And time is 7am PST

@marekd the thread is 5 Years Old at stackOverflow does it help now? because a lot of discussion going on still no one find the atcual answer yet.

@korina Never mind the above message, just figured it out!

@anthony10 Hi, we will announce it once it is in development.

@tsei97
Hmmm, seems what you call ‘canon snow’ is something between snow and frost.
I am not sure the weather model that provides Precipitation types can forecast this type of snow.