Map of predicted rainfall.
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It would be nice to have a prediction of when it's going to start and stop raining, in the form of a map. In the Netherlands the website "buienradar.nl" is often used for this, but it doesn't let you choose the data sources, and isn't nearly as aesthetically pleasing as windy in my opinion. The feature looks similar to the weather radar feature in Windy, except it also shows the predicted continuation.
In Windy the predicted amount of rainfall is available in tabular form for one specific location, but it would be much nicer if this information could be scrolled through like the weather radar map. There's also the rain accumulation feature, but that tends to be too vague to get a solid idea of when the rain is expected. The weather radar feature gives an idea of the motion of the rain clouds, but it is currently left up to the user's imagination how the motion will continue, and tends to reset to the start exactly when you're at the part of interest (i.e.: the most recent data).
Both a map based visualization of the forecast, and an extrapolation of the radar data would be interesting to me.
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@rc-1290 Hello, for your purpose I would recommend to use Rain, Thunder layer, it is predicted rain, snow accumulation in the last 3 hours.
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Thanks for the suggestion @korina, I suppose I should've mentioned that one as well. Like the other accumulation layers it's too vague to be able to draw any conclusions. Any rain in a 3 hour frame results in a faint blue glow that's hard to distinguish. Both the tabular data and the radar data tend to line up more clearly with observed weather (especially temporally, looks like local radar has 2 minute temporal resolution), with the downside that the tabular data isn't on the map, and the radar data doesn't show any predictions.
Perhaps the accumulation map could be easier to read if it used a clear threshold to become visible, rather than fading out (I thought the precipitation type map could help, but it rarely seems to line up). But most of all I think it needs to have higher temporal resolution, and less smoothing to be at all helpful with answering the question: "Do I go outside now, or is it worth waiting a few minutes.". I realize you may be limited by available data, but I feel like you already have some of this data, just not visualized with the usual flair.
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@rc-1290 As you mentioned, the rain forecast in visible in the detailed forecast, but thank you for suggestion.
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@korina Right, it does. But I hope you see why it would be more convenient to have that in map form as well. (Just like Wind speed and direction are also in the detailed forecast, but its nicely animated map view is still a useful feature)
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2 Years later I'm very excited to see something along these lines now available in the Weather Radar, clearly marked as prediction, along with a visualization what it is based on! And this appears to be released alongside an experiment for interpolating the rest of the results. I can't find anything about this in the announcements, but I am looking forward to testing how well it works for those "hmm, should I go for a walk now?" type questions.
Must be a tricky technological challenge to figure out how to move the radar data.
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@RC-1290 We released this feature only for web app for now and we will announce it when it will be available on all platforms.
