Stuck Graph and Bogus Data
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I've noticed that when using the route forecasting feature, if I scroll my departure time along the timeline by one or two hour increments the graph doesn't redraw. To get supposedly accurate data I have to scroll to the next day and then back. It's annoying and even then I'm not sure I trust the data. I thought switching from the website to the Android app might help but there was no change.
Below I'll post screenshots of me trying to determine if I can go on a bike ride tomorrow. I scrolled thru the entire day in one hour increments. It's hard to tell for sure without studying every detail but it appears to me that Windy is showing the exact same data for the following times.
6 and 7 am
8, 9, and 10 am
11 and 12 am, 1 pm
2 pm
3 and 4 pm
5 and 6 pmLook at the difference in forecasted temperatures between 1 pm and 2 pm start times. It appears that one of the two is incorrect, and I suspect it's the 1pm screenshot because that screenshot is actually showing the data for an 11 am start time.
I mentioned this issue before and was ignored. Is having to scroll back and forth trying to trigger the graph to redraw a bug or just the way Windy works?
I'm having a hard time using Windy but the 2nd best alternative I know of is highly inaccurate when it comes to wind, especially gusts, so I'm trying to make it work.
The last one is a screenshot of my favorite glitch. This day will be absolutely freezing! (tho you might have to be a scientist of some sort to get that joke) -
@tessellahedron Hi, first of all, major differences in certain changes can be caused by the free account, you have, since free account displays 3h steps.
According to the last screenshot, are you able to replicate it every time?
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@Ondřej-Šutera It's not a limitation with the free account. The screenshots you see above were produced by scrolling forward one hour at a time. If I scroll forward 12+ hours, and then scroll back by the same amount minus one hour, then it changes every time.
If you can't fix the bug maybe add a button to force that graph to refresh without scrolling all over the place. It's annoying.
I can't remember if the forecast for absolute zero temps only displayed once or if it stayed that way. It seems to happen when the input data is missing, since -460F is actually zero Kelvin, and all the other data is 0's. I've seen the same thing happen in the Hyperlocal Weather app on Android; a day way out in the 10-day forecast might show hundreds of degrees below zero but it always changes to a "real" (but still inaccurate as always) forecast fairly quickly. It's not really an issue, I just brought it up cause it's kinda funny.
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@Ondřej-Šutera I thought of another solution this morning while scrolling back and forth trying to get the graph to redraw.
Even when I scroll 12 hours forward and then go back to the time I want, if I don't scroll exactly to that time, for example I hover for an instant too long over (time+12-10) or (time+12-13), while trying to get to (time+12-11), the the graph will re-draw at one of those two incorrect times, and when I finally get the pointer to stop at the time I want, the graph doesn't redraw and I'm stuck looking at the data for +/- 1 hour from the time I wanted. Pretty irritating.
So, part of what's displayed in the graph needs to be the start time, that way even tho the pointer on the timeline can't be trusted, the user can always know the real departure time of the data they're being shown.
If you can't/won't fix the bugs at least give a workaround.
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@tessellahedron
I tried using the route planner on Chrome/iPad. In this way I am not Premium user.
For each departure hour change, the temperature and wind are updated.
For that, I mapped out a 40 mile ride with very few waypoints. Of course, it doesn't exactly follow the route. This is not a problem because the ECMWF model has a resolution of 9 km. It is therefore not necessary to follow every turn in the road.
I suggest you do a test with a simplified route, 40 miles with only 10 way points. The number of waypoints on your route may be the cause of your issue. Just a hypothesis. -
@idefix37 The gpx files I'm using came from the Supercycle bike computer app and contain my exact coordinates updated every second for the duration of the ride (2-3 hours). That's why there are so many waypoints.
I just manually created a route in Windy that matches one of my gpx files. I had to use 15 points to get all the turns but it's 44 miles and should be nearly identical to the gpx from my bike computer app.
Unfortunately, scrolling thru the timeline one hour at a time, the data/graph section only updates when it feels like it. That ends up being roughly every other or every third hour. Sometimes it updates every hour for like two or three hours in a row and then I start getting suspicious. "It's working now... something must be wrong."
I need it to work all the time.
