Status Barr amount of rain

Vert Liberte

Hi, in the status bar at the bottom wher you can see how much rain there is going to fall, it's starts with mm and at the and the maximum it is 1m ! Shouldn't that be 1cm ? I am using the French version.

idefix37

@Vert-Liberte
The units are correct on the Rain accumulation scale.
It’s not 1cm as you suggest, but 1m=1000mm.
This quantity of rain accumulation during 10 days is possible in tropical regions.
For instance during the next 10days, forecast is more than 600mm in Montenegro, which is not a tropical area.

But I must say that this color scale is really imprecise at the right end of the scale. If you look at this color scale in detail via Settings > Customize color scale > Rain accumulation, you see that the pink color covers a very wide range from about 100mm to more than 1000mm (btw 8000mm is a little bit crazy but it’s like a logarithmic scale)

Personally I prefer to use a customized color scale for rain accumulation which give me this type of map over India for example.

Updated June 2020

If you want to use it, just let me know.

Vert Liberte

@idefix37 Thanks a lot for the precisions, it's very clear now. Yes I would like to use your colors, how can I do that ?

idefix37

@Vert-Liberte
When you change the color scale, the same modification will be applied to all your devices.
Go to Settings
Scroll down and choose Customize color scale
Select overlay:
Rain accumulation
At bottom of page find the line Import/export
Click on [view code] to open a window pop up
Delete the text code in this window
Select and copy all lines of code here below and paste them in the window
Press [Import Gradient]
Press Save
You can come back to the default Windy settings at any time by pressing Load defaults

[[0,[130,130,130]],
[1,[131,129,142]],
[5,[97,88,132,255]],
[10,[52,117,142,255]],
[30,[11,140,136,256]],
[40,[53,159,53]],
[80,[167,157,81]],
[120,[159,127,58]],
[250,[190,76,7]],
[500,[207,40,71]],
[750,[175,80,136,256]],
[1000,[212,118,163,256]],
[1500,[250,157,190]],
[2000,[220,220,220,255]]]

Updated Summer 2023

If you want to use other colors, see
https://community.windy.com/topic/10336/customize-the-color-scales-of-windy-layers?_=1698745406888