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  Political Topics & Posts Are NOT Acceptable
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  About Windy
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  I am live in Junagadh saurashtra region near cosal area Gujarat. Windy becomes very useful current when "vayu" cyclone passed closely Gujarat costal area Its graphic very nice to understood. Windy helpful for do disaster & save life of people before cyclone & other whether affect. Thanks
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  Help us translate Windy
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  What source of weather data Windy use?
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  @ivo Is there away to stickpin a certain weathermodel? E.g. I wanted to have ICON set permanently. How would I Do this? Looks like at the moment the user has to always check which weathermodel is being used. That can be annoying when flipping back and fro through maps and Forecasts... appreciate your answer. Best, Chris
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  Description of weather overlays
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  @shrawan0825 Please read https://community.windy.com/topic/3361/description-of-weather-overlays
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  Formatting tips
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  @ivo Also quite frequent: For clickable URL, use [TEXT](http://some.url) It seems that the http:// prefix is mandatory, keep that in mind ! Or simply, test the result in the "Preview" first when creating the post !
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  Can we use pictures, animations or videos from Windy in our TV, webpage, newspaper, project...
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  Hi @simpleculinary, your link doesn't work.
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  How to set up a Windy Alert
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  @klaasgroen It does not seem possible https://community.windy.com/topic/6006/how-to-setup-an-alert-for-no-rain/4
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  How to Report a BUG - use the new Error Console!
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  I should also mention, I am on IOS 11.2.5, maybe there's a compatibility issue?
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  Disputed territories on Windy
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  How to correct errors in the base maps
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  This following text is from our member jmh2002 Thank you for your post. Unfortunately the place names are not controlled by Windy. Please see the following posts about how the map data for Windy is sourced and displayed from www.openstreetmap.org: https://community.windy.com/topic/4649/how-to-correct-errors-in-the-base-maps https://community.windy.com/topic/5564/disputed-territories-on-windy Please also note: For every language, a different place name label can be displayed, so please choose your correct language and data display. Further discussion of place name and language issues or disputes should be directed to the OpenStreetMap Forum here: https://forum.openstreetmap.org/index.php > scroll down & select > users: (the relevant country for your dispute and/or question) In the case of a political dispute please leave such topics out of the Windy forum and instead focus on the discussion of weather. Thank you :)
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  How can I access historical data?
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  @Amartuvshin not possible
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  Profile Picture
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  @timbukwu, follow the manual and screenshot, change picture option is available above the username. https://community.windy.com/topic/6737/how-to-change-username-or-password
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  Offline use of Windy
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  Can you negotiate with your providers to offer this feature? In the modern world, in order to visualise data you need to transform it. If instead of sharing the source files you share the transformed data you would be respecting the agreement, wouldn't be?
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  Keyboard shortcuts
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  On Twitter, "?" brings up a list of keyboard shortcuts. Saves a lot of bytes,
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  Changing scale °C to °F on mobile devices
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  On my iPhone, on the app, I finally found settings (icon under the Home iconas I recently learned). I then scrolled down (also not obvious). I changed from C to F and it automatically asked me to log-in, which I did and the switch stuck. I know I am forgetting something, but the key, in addition to being logged in (on the app on your iPhone!), is to scroll all the way down in Settings to find Save (in red, not grayed out). I did first log into the website, but noticed it was already set to F. Not sure if just then logging into the app made the difference (since settings are supposedly in the cloud) or if actual saving on the app while logged into the app did it.
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  Is model resolution important?
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  @capt-Amory No, GFS 22km has a lower resolution than ECMWF 9km which has a higher resolution. https://help.weatherflow.com/hc/en-us/articles/207913278-Weather-model-resolution The resolution is the number of grid points on a given surface (or pixels on a digital photo). If you decrease the distance between the points, you increase their number and so the resolution.
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  How to embed Windy widget to your webpage?
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  how do you get the embeded radar map to auto play? I am using Iframes and HTML?
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  Aggregator Open Data Licence (AODL)
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