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  What timezone is used at Windytv?
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  About Windy
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  Hello Ivo

  I am from Germany and my English is not the best.
  Only now discovered your weather page.
  I use weather information on the web since 1994 and your site is actually the best free alternative so far.
  Remains in the concept, fast, compact and ad-free.
  I would also have no problem for such a good side to pay a small fee, so that it remains ad free and your effort is paid a little.

  Many greetings from Koblenz, Rhineland, Germany

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  How to get back from community to Windy.com
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  What is forecast model
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  That means swell 1 2 and 3 please how can one interpret this data

  thank you

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  How to set up Windy Alert
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  Отлично:)!

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  How can I access historical data?
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  Folks, things are moving forward. Please read this update on historical data.

  Thanks

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  Description of weather overlays
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  @ivo

  Could you explain difference between:

  wawes swell 1 swell 2 swell 3
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  How to use forecast table/meteogram/airgam on your own website
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  Hi Ivo,

  does the URL address above have a version which utilises the aviation airport IATA or ICAO designators instead of Lat/Lon? And does the same permission apply to using the meteogram images for internal (commercial) webpage use?

  https://embed.windy.com/embed2.html?lat=49.9667&lon=14.3778&type=forecast&metricWind=kt&metricTemp=%C2%B0C&lang=en&display=meteogram&model=ecmwf

  Regards
  Craig

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  Keyboard shortcuts
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  Thanks, Ivo.

  I did stumble across these shortcuts a little while ago and have found them very useful.

  Is it possible to add an additional keyboard shortcut that alternates between the available computer models?

  This would be super useful when making quick model comparisons of particular weather features.

  Thanks.

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  What type of altitude is used for the wind?
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  @Hecky 100m layer is also above ground level (above model terrain), it is the same case like 10m level.
  Upper layers display values for isobaric surfaces, e.g. 850hPa, not for exact altitude. AMSL value in the tooltip is only approximation.

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  How to embed Windytv widget to your webpage?
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  For consideration: Integration of user-defined plume models. Or, Windytv built-in plume models. For example, I wonder how the UI at http://weather.hawaii.edu/vmap/hysplit/, modeling Hawaii volcano smog, might be presented on top of Windytv, using Windytv wind data. Then, it occurred to me this might be a nice source of income for Windytv, fee-paid for "business" use of an API. There are probably 10's or 100's of thousands of national, state, and local hazmat and disaster-planning departments around the world who have prepared (or want to prepare) plume-model applications, to track release of airborne toxins. No doubt they would be pleased to move their models to Windytv, and willing to pay for it.

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  Our privacy policy (Android, iOS apps)
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  Why the forecast fails
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  About weather stations at Windytv
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  When and how often are the weather data updated at Windytv.com?
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  What source of weather data Windy use?
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  @JerryKelih We use same data source now, ECMWF

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  How to contact us?
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  Can we use pictures, animations or videos from Windytv in our TV, webpage, newspaper, project...
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  @Tex be sure to check out http://www.fastseas.com/, which combines sailing routing with windyty visualization :)

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  Find location by its coordinates
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