Missing wind speed in station weather charts
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In any station weather chart box, the wind directions are shown but the speeds are NOT.
To the far left of the chart in the same row as the wind direction it displays the unit of the wind speed. Such irony. And there's plenty of space below to display the speed. Twice the irony.
I reported this bug before, no corrective action was taken. And my report is not even shown in my reporting history timeline. So Windy apparently swept it under the rug, as usual. Triple the irony.
I won't go away, tho, and will continue to flag this bug.
To know the speed, one has to drag the vertical hairline over the the exact horizontal position, and only then will the wind speed show up in the pop up box atop the vertical hairline.
Why make it so difficult for the users? Does this reflect Windy's UX mentality? Why lose my previous report from my timeline? Does this reflect Windy's CS mentality? Go figure.
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@hangInThere Hi, do you talk about the wind speed of 4km/h which is not displayed by the color?
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@Ondřej-Šutera Yeah. Wind speed is a number. Here (per my setting), the unit is km/hr.
Unlike the reporting station charts, which displays only wind direction in a row labeled with km/h on the left and nowhere shows wind speed, location forecast chart does it right: wind direction has its own row, and wind speed in km/hr displays numbers. It even separate out wind gust, an important number separate from the (average) wind speed.
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Some remarks (in the mobile app).
When you said that below the line with the arrows of wind direction and color stripes of wind speed, there is room enough for wind speed and gusts values, note this line is used for the model forecasts. On website too.
But I agree that this diagram should be reorganised.
First in the mobile app I don’t see what is the point of the first line showing several days forecast. What does it bring?
As already said a line with the model forecast values in the grey box (same as website would be really useful).
Then concerning the pressure curves (reported and forecast) in most cases they very similar and that bring no real additional information. It should be better to show lines of wind and gusts values, reported and forecast. -
In my opinion, it would be more useful to see the actual recorded wind speed value - not just a colour.
As @hangInThere shows, like the forecast panel - one line with the Wind Speed value (with colour behind it), next line Wind Direction arrow. Toss the Wind gust value in there too if the data is available.
Plenty of space available for reorganization, as @idefix37 points out. Please take note of the missing comparison in the grey box - this is extremely useful to analyze how a particular model is performing.It's more useful to know what the reported wind speed values are and not have to try and estimate the recorded wind speed via colour interpretation.
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Hi there, these changes have their point, I agree and I can forward them to colleagues in the product team. However, there are certain plans in the near future and I am afraid that these changes won't be implemented there.
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@Ondřej-Šutera Same old same old. Have seen similar response many times to me and others. Sandbagging is the name. The amount of coding required to fix this is too minor to rise to the level of scheduling work load. Any experienced programmer will know it takes no more than 10 minutes (even this is over budgeting) to make the change and another few more to fully test it out. @Filip_K
