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Most of the airport stations report METAR and SYNOP also. Therefore two stations close to each other are considered duplicate.

As long as you are able to click on your station a see your detail I think this is just cosmetic issue

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The Windy users, that have been tricked to pay them complain to us. They think that we are crooks. No we are not crooks. If you install the last version of Russian Windy app they offer you 7 days trial, but after 7 days, instead of politely asking you if you want to continue, they charge your credit card automatically. And the "7 day trial button" is so big, that it is almost impossible to skip it for inexperienced user.

What a nasty tactic. How ugly behaviour is that.

The Russian Windy app started with stolen data from Windguru (Windguru owner Vaclav H was too lazy to sue them) and they started with name Windy, just to cannibalize our brand.

But you are right. We are better than that. I stop this promo.

There is bigger justice in this World

This post is used as a "source code" for list of plugins at https://www.windy.com/plugins Therefore IT MUST have specific format otherwise automatic parser fails.

The format is simple. Header 2 ## contains the name of the plugin, followed by a description, that MUST be on a single line (yet it can contain links and bold fonts). The next line is URL to npm with the plugin. The last line is URL of a picture with a plugin, that MUST be server from img.windy.com

Let us know if we should add your plugin to the list

Sun position

Displays sun position for any place i the Earth. Must for all photographers. Discussion
https://www.npmjs.com/package/windy-plugin-sun-position
https://img.windy.com/albums/howto/sundial.jpg

Trajectory

The trajectory of air particle in different flight levels. Useful for balloon flying. Discussion
https://www.npmjs.com/package/windy-plugin-traj
https://img.windy.com/albums/howto/Screenshot-2019-08-16-at-16.52.29.png

SkewT diagram

Skew T diagram for any place in the world.
https://www.npmjs.com/package/windy-plugin-skewt
https://img.windy.com/albums/howto/Screenshot-2019-08-16-at-15.25.52.png

Airspaces

Display airspaces from OpenAIP
https://www.npmjs.com/package/windy-plugin-airspaces
https://img.windy.com/albums/howto/Screenshot-2019-08-16-at-16.49.29.png

Density altitude

Displays elevation, DA, PA for any place in the World.
https://www.npmjs.com/package/windy-plugin-da
https://img.windy.com/albums/howto/Screenshot-2019-08-20-at-15.10.58.png

Flight planner

An alternative to internal Windy functionality route planner.
https://www.npmjs.com/package/windy-plugin-fp
https://img.windy.com/albums/howto/Screenshot-2019-08-20-at-15.13.24.png

South African weather warnings

Displays weather Warnings in SA
https://www.npmjs.com/package/windy-plugin-saws-warnings
https://img.windy.com/albums/articles/tadeusz-lakota-496233-unsplash.jpg

Paragliding flyability

Shows detailed popup for "flyability" for paragliding spots
https://www.npmjs.com/package/windy-plugin-pg
https://img.windy.com/albums/howto/windy-plugin-pg_screenshot.png

South African weather stations

South African weather stations from iWeather.co.za
https://www.npmjs.com/package/windy-plugin-iw
https://img.windy.com/albums/howto/Screenshot-2019-08-20-at-15.07.06.png

USA river flows

Real-time data from river gauges across the USA. Provided by USGS.
https://www.npmjs.com/package/windy-plugin-waterwatch
https://img.windy.com/albums/howto/Screenshot-2019-08-20-at-15.14.56.png

Sounding

Alternative, and more detailed sounding graph
https://www.npmjs.com/package/windy-plugin-sounding
https://img.windy.com/albums/howto/Screenshot-2019-08-20-at-15.02.04.png

➜ ➜ The tracker can be found at https://www.windy.com/greta-thunberg

I am Ivo, founder of Windy.

14 years ago I was part of the Czech sailing team RADOST (happiness in English) and we had a beautiful self-made carbon monohull T830. We won most of the races in fact, because we participated in a special category where better design and a faster boat gave us a big advantage.

A lot of time has passed since then, and hearing about Greta Thunberg setting sail to New York on a beautiful carbon IMOCA 60 monohull Malizia II brings back a lot of nice memories. So I am more than happy that we can provide a live tracker where you can see Greta's progress online, together with a wind and wave forecast and with almost real time satellite and lightning observation. Windy is a good choice for such a tracker since we DO NOT serve tracking cookies to users, and we are a free and zero-advertisement service. There was a time in our company's history when we wanted to turn Windy into a non-profit, Wikipedia like foundation, but complicated EU legislation and corporate greed of our providers destroyed these plans.

But back to Greta.

➜ ➜ The tracker can be found at https://www.windy.com/greta-thunberg

Details about Greta's trip can be found in Pavel's article here

In the next generations our societies will go through a big transformation called decarbonization and I am aware that a lot of activities and hobbies we have today will be reduced by carbon taxes and regulations. This is quite unsettling, but thanks to Greta and millions of young kids like her, I understand that the change is necessary. On the other hand, as a kiter and former sailor, I know how much fun a person can have with just a gust of wind. And that is the reason I founded Windy back in 2014.

Carbon is better in a boat than in the atmosphere.

Greta, enjoy the ride and stay safe.

Ivo

@mhaberler Good idea

Basicly the plugins are a slight security threat running JS in the same context. We plan to make nice plugin Gallery and loading/opening plugins much more easy, yet we do not believe that opening URL is good idea.

This way an attacker can submit an attacker can submit a link with malware JS plugin in path. We routinely check source code of published plugins to make sure this will not happen.

@Masatv Yes it is possible to use Windy as long as source is mentioned

There is more and more layers in Windy, so we have added gallery view of all overlay overlays. List view is default though.

A nice bonus is an animation, whenever you hover mouse over a thumbnail.