Radar Only Historical Is Absurd
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I really like the Windy app. However, virtually every app I’ve ever owned allowed me to view future radar. You’re basically doing this in the “hurricane tracking” function anyway. Why can I get a “rain forecast” layer on a nice smooth rolling 24/48 hr window but not a layer for rain/thunderstorms?
Honestly, clicking on one of my locations and having a default of “one hour ago till present time” is completely worthless. I was sitting here, I know if it rained. No one I’m the planet has ever spent $20 a year for an app to tell them the real time weather. We want to know what’s coming.
Lastly, I just converted to premium. I just spent the money because when I clicked on 12 hrs in the “rain/storms” layer it said I needed premium for that feature. That felt OK to me for a quality product. I was infuriated when I learned that the 12 hrs was twelve hours in the past.** What kind of shit app developer charges you to tell you the weather from 12 hrs ago as a premium feature - You should be ashamed of that. And… honestly, even though I really like your app and your Apple Watch build, I’m probably going to stop recommending it to people because I think what you did to get me to go premium (12 hr retro) is inexcusable
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Windy only displays real weather data, not some pseudo "future radar":
https://community.windy.com/topic/26216/Please-improve-the-radar-features?_=1691227723935
It is therefore not absurd to show present and past rain.Concerning the hurricanes tracking, their forecast is carried out by weather models. But these weather models are not able to accurately compute the intensity of the rain at a place in the following hour, especially when they are updated every 6 hours.
