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btschumy

Not sure what the best way to report this is, but something is wrong with the cloud forecast for Longmont, CO, USA. It has been mostly cloudy all day but most of your forecasts show it mostly clear.

Only Meteoblue has showed it cloudy today.

I finally looked at 3 or 4 other forecast sites that have ICON and HRRR forecasts and they have been showing it mostly cloudy during the same periods where Windy has it clear.

Not sure what could be wrong but it is almost like Windy is pulling the wrong data. I have only noticed this with the cloud forecast (I'm and astronomer so I pay close attention to that). I haven't paid close attention to the other forecast parameters

btschumy

@Suty
It just happened to me again. I've been on the 1 hr forecast setting for the past 6 days. I just visited Windy from my iPad and I was logged out. After logging back in I saw I was on the 3 hour forecast. I looked in the settings and the "Remember 1hr/3hr setting" was no longer checked. I checked it.

I then tried Windy on a Mac and I was still logged in there. However, the "Remember 1hr/3hr setting" was no longer checked there. perhaps not enough time past to sync with the iPad settings. This gives me the 3 hr forecast.

btschumy

@nesro
I have had this problem as well. I will see if it is better now.

btschumy

@Suty
Well it is working for the time being. The problem is that this setting is being turned off by something (not by me). It may be when a new web version is released or it could be when i get logged off occasionally.

I am running on iPadOS and it could be Safari there is periodically deleting cookies for some reason. That could also explain the periodic logouts.

I will keep a watch on it and see if I can discern a pattern.

btschumy

@Suty
In my case, yes I had I turned on. However, it got turned off again by either an update or possibly by my being logged out and logging in again.

btschumy

@Suty
No, it just happens once after the update. It’s like the name of the setting has been changed so the app doesn’t find to old one and uses the default.

btschumy

I noticed that with the latest 47.1.4 build, the 1hr/3hr setting for the point forecasts is no longer remembered between visits. I then thought to check my settings and saw the "Remember 1hr/3hr setting" had become unchecked. This is the second time the setting was lost after an update.

Is this by design? Are you trying to get people to use the 3 hr forecast because it is less resource intensive. It would be nice if this didn't change behind our backs.

Oxidiser

I would really like a windy.com MCP server.

One use case would be disclosing weather data for my current location from now to a a few hours in the future. The goal is asking my AI models for the local weather. And also ask it to maybe answer questions like 'Is this a good time for a bike ride?', 'What is the best time to go cycling this week according to the weather?' etc.

I really wonder if anything like this would be possible for windy.com to implement. I think it should be, using the windy API.

btschumy

This is also the case with Safari on an iPad.

claudia.acqui

Dear Windy,

I am a pro user and I really love your products. I am also an atmospheric scientists who is doing research to improve forecasts of extreme events and I have a question about the radar data you display.
I would like to know the source of the radar data, the frequency, and the polarization. In particular, I am interested in knowing the source of the radar data you display over southern Italy. Are they from civil protection? Who is the data provider? Do you have a commercial agreement with them, or could you get them for free?

Many many thanks for your help

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