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@Ingram1225
The north of a map is always at the top of the screen.
Windy App is not a compass or a GPS App.

@CS21
... BTW, is there any free source for AMDAR (or ACARS) data?

@CS21
You are comparing forecast data (Windy) with observed data
(I supose Flightradar24 shows measurments from aircraft's AMDAR system (Aircraft Meteorological Data Relay).
This is one reason explaining the difference.
In my opinion there is no signifficant diference in wind speed (60-70 vs 50-60).

Differences in wind direction may be due to jet stream afecting the area.

Furthermore, errors can occur when the aircraft is maneuvering (roll angles > 5).
After all, we don't know if the instrument is well-maintained.

@ivo
@TomSlavkovsky
@TZ
As many people are not familiar with Kelvin scale,
I'd like to have the ability to change units in INFRA+ (from K to C)
(the same way as in temperature or wind layer).

@alip
Firstly, I must let you know that I'm not Windy's personnel.
So, I can't answer all of your questions.
I don't know Windy's plans for the future.

About sky condition, NOAA uses the following definitions :
https://www.weather.gov/media/pah/ServiceGuide/A-forecast.pdf

Turkish State Meteo. Service uses the following symbols:
(cloud coverage in octas as I interpret them)

My question to you:
What is the usefulness if Windy adds a "mostly sunny" icon?
"Partly cloudy" is not enough?
Do you think that the average reader
can see any difference between the following icons?

@seba397
In INFRA+, cloud top temperature given in Kelvin scale (K).
240K - 273.15 = -33.15°C
200K - 273.15 = -73.15°C

@TomSlavkovsky @Simona-Polackova Bump

@TZ
Thank you for your answer.

@Simona-Polackova
I do confirm that this issue is observed with Rain, thunder layer, with ECMWF model. This occurs for me on iOS devices, iPhone and iPad, both with iOS app and for mobile website. In this last case both with Safari and Chrome. I have the same issue on Mac OSX with Chrome but a bit smoother.
No trouble with other models, so the addition of lightnings with ECMWF seems to be the cause.

@TZ
I understood this difference in color based on clouds altitude, but could we know at which altitude the color changes?
https://community.windy.com/topic/8820/windy-launches-satellite-layer/62