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      Hurricane Ian wind speeds vs windy shown wind speeds
      General Discussion • wind speed reported wind • • utschy

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      idefix37

      @utschy
      I guess you look at the NOAA forecast on the Windy hurricane tracker as it is the default setting.

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      The other one is the ECMWF forecast. The NOAA forecast is based on the official track from the NHC. This Center uses several models like that one of the ECMWF and the GFS model. But in addition they use specialised hurricane models like HWRF and HMON. They include also the wind and pressure reported by flight recon and the Dvorak analyse based on satellite imagery. At the end they make an estimate based on sustained winds over 1-minute. This determines the category of the hurricane according to the Saffir-Simpson scale.
      When you look at the Wind layer in Windy, it is the forecast of a particular weather model which is not based on 1-minute wind but 10-minutes (the difference is about 15%). Then the resolution of these models and the way how they compute the wind forecast cannot give the same result as that of the NHC.
      So you better use the wind estimation of the NOAA tracker.

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      Is it possible to see past wind data?
      General Discussion • windyapp historical data wind speed • • nimonim

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      @yves70 thank you for letting me know

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      Wind Arrows
      Your Feedback and Suggestions • wind direction wind speed • • xyachts

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      @gkikas-lgpz Hello !
      On "MY MAPS" window, try to deploy the Wind layer and adjust the parameter - Palette is automatic and changes according to the zoom level
      However, we all agree Windy is the best and fastest display and we all wait AROME charts to be resumed ! All the best

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      Speed box/balloon misplaced on iOS
      Bug Reports • touch box balloon wind speed • • dominicns

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      JRep65

      I just drag the map to the white dot under the info "flag".

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      Wind visualisation
      Your Feedback and Suggestions • wind patterns altitude 3d mode wind profile wind speed • • jerrajerra

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      idefix37


      see wind flow at 00:9:53

      @jerrajerra

      Remember that global models have a resolution between 9km and 22km ! So it’s impossible to display such a picture by weather models. What they show here is like a video game at very high resolution. For the weather forecast, maybe in 20 or 30 years....

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      Simple Hurricane Data Overlay
      Your Feedback and Suggestions • hurricane path hurricane track incorrect wind wind speed • • jmal234

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      @jmh2002 While that's all fine and good, that doesn't really help as to be frank I'm not looking for fun or to be a meteorologist I'm looking out of concern of safety and damage.

      That said, as mentioned the hurricane tracker is not in the Android app and furthermore I don't believe a user should have to go to the mobile webpage/pc to see the hurricane tracker. And again while that page does indeed seem to provide a lot of information, during an emergency of an impeding hurricane potentially making landfall in my area I only want/need to know where and the predicted speed/category as mentioned.

      Having a simple overlay with that would be the MOST helpful, 1 line of text is quick and easy to consume, but even the tracker in the Android app would be nice.

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      Wind speed at weather stations?
      Your Feedback and Suggestions • weather station wind speed • • ionize

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      idefix37

      @ionize
      No this is a year old screenshot

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      Spot location wind data
      Your Feedback and Suggestions • spot location wind speed wind direction • • yuuki2012001

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