<![CDATA[Windy.com introduces real-time satellite animation]]>All the satellite images out there, are delivered in 5 to 15 minutes steps.

But can you imagine seamless, real time satellite imagery. It is technically impossible, yet we have tried to do our magic. Tomas, Jindra and Milan came with the concept of interpolation of missing images, that display clouds movement in "real-time" (quotes are necessary, since it is not real-time in fact). But not only that, satellite images are much more detailed and sharper, then in previous version.

See the difference in the video, it is amazing :)

To save bandwidth or spare your notebook battery you can switch off this feature off in Menu > Settings by disabling Smooth satellite animation switch.

This new feature is available on desktop only and we are still not sure, if we port this to our mobile apps, where bandwidth can be a limiting issue.

So enjoy new satellite and stay safe.

Ivo

]]>https://community.windy.com/topic/12184/windy-com-introduces-real-time-satellite-animationRSS for NodeTue, 14 Jul 2026 12:59:08 GMTFri, 15 May 2020 13:35:29 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Windy.com introduces real-time satellite animation on Mon, 21 Sep 2020 09:41:56 GMT]]>Hi @FranciscoMateus, this is a test pattern of the radar. You can read more on this here:
https://community.windy.com/topic/13493/what-is-this/6?_=1600681067491

'Strange' behavior of the radar:
https://www.weather.gov/jetstream/radarfaq#everything
https://www.radartutorial.eu/15.weather/wx21.en.html

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/57203https://community.windy.com/post/57203Mon, 21 Sep 2020 09:41:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Windy.com introduces real-time satellite animation on Sun, 20 Sep 2020 13:01:54 GMT]]>@idefi![alt text](![image url](![image url](![image url](image urlScreenshot_2020-09-20-09-19-08.png ))))

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/57150https://community.windy.com/post/57150Sun, 20 Sep 2020 13:01:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Windy.com introduces real-time satellite animation on Mon, 14 Sep 2020 13:30:29 GMT]]>@Korina Trypolis na jutro wtorek dla tej miejscowości model ECMWF prognozuje burze oraz MBLUE a GFS i ICON nie w meterogramach i w warstwach

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/56598https://community.windy.com/post/56598Mon, 14 Sep 2020 13:30:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Windy.com introduces real-time satellite animation on Mon, 14 Sep 2020 13:01:14 GMT]]>@przemo1986 Hello, all the models forecast storms. Could you please enclose some example?

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/56595https://community.windy.com/post/56595Mon, 14 Sep 2020 13:01:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Windy.com introduces real-time satellite animation on Mon, 14 Sep 2020 11:08:57 GMT]]>rozumiem mam jeszcze pytanie dlaczego tylko model ECMWF prognozuje burze a inne nie z jak GFS czy ICON ?

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/56586https://community.windy.com/post/56586Mon, 14 Sep 2020 11:08:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Windy.com introduces real-time satellite animation on Mon, 14 Sep 2020 07:10:19 GMT]]>@przemo1986 Hello, once the implementation to the apps is ready, we will announce it.

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/56563https://community.windy.com/post/56563Mon, 14 Sep 2020 07:10:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Windy.com introduces real-time satellite animation on Mon, 14 Sep 2020 07:05:28 GMT]]>@bluefalcon Hi, the release date is not known yet.

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/56562https://community.windy.com/post/56562Mon, 14 Sep 2020 07:05:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Windy.com introduces real-time satellite animation on Sat, 12 Sep 2020 16:39:22 GMT]]>cześć dlaczego w aplikacji nie została dodana opcja plynej animacji ? nie ma tez opcji infra jest tylko infra +

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/56471https://community.windy.com/post/56471Sat, 12 Sep 2020 16:39:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Windy.com introduces real-time satellite animation on Mon, 01 Jun 2020 12:32:30 GMT]]>Nice, Smooth and Beautiful. Any ETA for Mobile devices?

Love for Windy Team!

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/47908https://community.windy.com/post/47908Mon, 01 Jun 2020 12:32:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Windy.com introduces real-time satellite animation on Mon, 01 Jun 2020 07:30:27 GMT]]>@Typhoon2000 Hello, please check if you have the smooth animation turned on in the settings. There is no problem on Windows 10.

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/47888https://community.windy.com/post/47888Mon, 01 Jun 2020 07:30:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Windy.com introduces real-time satellite animation on Sat, 30 May 2020 04:53:04 GMT]]>Amazing Animation! Good job Windy! However, the smooth animation is not Working when using Windows 10. Only when using Mac Air. :) Hope you can fix this!

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/47743https://community.windy.com/post/47743Sat, 30 May 2020 04:53:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Windy.com introduces real-time satellite animation on Thu, 21 May 2020 07:56:43 GMT]]>@mhaberler Hi, yes, we are using optical flow.

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/47050https://community.windy.com/post/47050Thu, 21 May 2020 07:56:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Windy.com introduces real-time satellite animation on Thu, 21 May 2020 06:56:42 GMT]]>superb!

curious - are you using an optical flow algorithm?

  • Michael
]]>https://community.windy.com/post/47043https://community.windy.com/post/47043Thu, 21 May 2020 06:56:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Windy.com introduces real-time satellite animation on Thu, 21 May 2020 05:32:37 GMT]]>Simply amazing!! Thank you Windy for providing such as amazing real-time animation!!

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/47039https://community.windy.com/post/47039Thu, 21 May 2020 05:32:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Windy.com introduces real-time satellite animation on Tue, 19 May 2020 10:10:28 GMT]]>@ivo wow

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/46839https://community.windy.com/post/46839Tue, 19 May 2020 10:10:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Windy.com introduces real-time satellite animation on Mon, 18 May 2020 12:52:15 GMT]]>@Ashishweb Hi, the visualisation is a mosaic of multiple satellite images. At the ~85E meridian there is a boundary between two of them. It is hard to glue the images together. In some cases it is not possible at all.
Images from visible part of the light spectrum are prone to lighting artifacts like scattering in atmosphere or reflections. Especially when one satellite is "looking to the sun" and sees only scattered light near the horizon. Then the picture is completely yellowish on Windy. The other satellite sees the same place from much different angle and in such case does not suffer from the actual light scattering. If you want more homogeneous image, try switching to INFRA or INFRA+. There are almost no lighting artifacts in the images, because they contain only emitted light (which is radiated in all directions with the same intensity) and therefore can be glued together quite well.

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/46740https://community.windy.com/post/46740Mon, 18 May 2020 12:52:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Windy.com introduces real-time satellite animation on Mon, 18 May 2020 07:16:56 GMT]]>@Ashishweb Hello, it is not a bug, it is a matter of how the satellite imagery is synchronised.

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/46680https://community.windy.com/post/46680Mon, 18 May 2020 07:16:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Windy.com introduces real-time satellite animation on Mon, 18 May 2020 15:36:27 GMT]]>To get the worldwide mosaic map, I guess Windy merges images from geostationary satellites with different timestamps (e.g. EUMETSAT images are provided every 15 minutes, HIMAWARI every 15 minutes, GOES every 5 minutes, etc.).

Thus it would be practically impossible to get perfectly synchronized animation, down to the last pixel, on such an area where images with different timestamps are merged.

See also this post.

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/46584https://community.windy.com/post/46584Mon, 18 May 2020 15:36:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Windy.com introduces real-time satellite animation on Sun, 17 May 2020 11:41:07 GMT]]>Hi there, I want to bring your attention to a problem with satellite imagery in windy. At coordinates near to 10N and 85E, there is a cyclone building up at this time and when we click to see the satellite image, there is a sync issue with two different areas of image, more precisely it is the eastern and western side of the image not syncing correctly. Please do something to fix this if it could be.
Thanks

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/46583https://community.windy.com/post/46583Sun, 17 May 2020 11:41:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Windy.com introduces real-time satellite animation on Sat, 16 May 2020 10:06:54 GMT]]>Wow the best satellite ever!!!,Now i can watch satellite in smooth mode !!
5 stars !

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/46504https://community.windy.com/post/46504Sat, 16 May 2020 10:06:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Windy.com introduces real-time satellite animation on Sat, 16 May 2020 03:58:49 GMT]]>Awesome Windy.com is a real awesome and no words to say an awesome app for weather enthusiast like me

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/46479https://community.windy.com/post/46479Sat, 16 May 2020 03:58:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Windy.com introduces real-time satellite animation on Sat, 16 May 2020 00:14:00 GMT]]>I'm not a meteorologist, so I use Windy mostly for entertainment, and to learn about climate by myself.
Having these awesome updates available for free makes me love Windy more than any other similar apps, and I'm glad to be part of it!
Right now I can't donate because I'm really short in money, but when my situation gets better, I'll help as much as I can.
Keep doing this great work

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/46476https://community.windy.com/post/46476Sat, 16 May 2020 00:14:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Windy.com introduces real-time satellite animation on Fri, 15 May 2020 23:52:59 GMT]]>This makes sure that there are creative minds behind this -I have to say- GREAT APP ! This is a full luxury feature that no one have ordered or dreamed especially at these critical times that we are living today.

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/46475https://community.windy.com/post/46475Fri, 15 May 2020 23:52:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Windy.com introduces real-time satellite animation on Fri, 15 May 2020 19:37:49 GMT]]>@Korina
Wow it's really mesmerizing ! Great job !

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/46456https://community.windy.com/post/46456Fri, 15 May 2020 19:37:49 GMT