Android App where is the update time?
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I can see when each weather model updated on my computer but not in the Windy Android app. Where can I find this?
Is there a location where each weather model shows next update time so I would like to see how long since last update and local time of next update for each weather model?
I was out and we had major rain and thunderstorms in Victoria Australia yesterday afternoon while both the ECMWF and ACCESS showed no rain until 14 hours later in the forecast. Only ACCESS updated to show rain 1.5 hours later when it updated from sunny to rain while ECMWF did an update around the same time and still didn't know it was heavy rain but it did bring the prediction of rain forward by about 6 hours but still 8 hours in the future.
I need rain predictions that are in the ball park which is the only reason I pay premium but today it failed. You often see a few hours different for rainfall predictions which is understandable but yesterday made no sense. ECMWF is generally more accurate than ACCESS when predicting rain even though ACCESS is Australia specific.
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@ianspencer see the 'about these data' menu in the forecast selection section of the main menu
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OK so I worked it out partially thanks, it depends on what data you are looking at.
Some data types don't have that information and some do. You can't view this while viewing the forecast. I still think last updated should show on the phone without messing around at a glance or an info button.
I guess I don't use most of the app, I view forecast and weather radar and its not obvious from either of those views. So from Weather Radar it says updated 3 minutes ago as it updates very frequently. It isn't clear what you select to see when the forecast was last updated. I selected Wind and it seems to be doing the updates every 6 hours so is that interval and time stamp matching the forecast or do I need to look select something else?
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The update of a model means that the data provided by this model has been updated (its data has been recalculated) and therefore the forecast is itself updated and is the most recent. It’s that simple.
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Almost right.
If you look at the weather radar or satellite layers you get no weather model times.
If you look at most of the other layers you get multiple different update times such as sea temperature and particle matter.
So a quick look and depending on the layer selected you get no weather model data or one of at least three times depending on the layer selected. It looks like the weather forecast is updated with the more common filters such as wind and temperature.
While this all seems obvious and straight forward it isn't at least on the mobile app which doesn't without a menu dive display any time at all and I almost always use the app. Depending on how the user is using the app they will either see no information all the way though to 3 time zones of updates for the ECMWF model.
All I really want is the app to show on the forecast the last updated time as it is on the web page and that will be the primary view most users go to but Windy will have the stats on that.
I may not be a Windy expert but I can't be the only user that is on the app and have trouble understanding this. I am almost convinced the update time was on the Android app in a obvious place in the past but I may be wrong.
Thanks for the help and now I understand the app much more than I did before.
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@ianspencer said in Android App where is the update time?:
All I really want is the app to show on the forecast the last updated time as it is on the web page and that will be the primary view most users go to but Windy will have the stats on that.
Your question is strange and not very clear to me.
The mobile app ever shows the last update of the weather model you select. All the forecast parameters shown on the map (wind, temperature, rain... ) that are provided by your chosen model, are updated at same time. But all the parameters are not provided by the same model (Tidal currents, SO2... for instance).
In the mobile app the model update time is shown near the models list ( here in iPhone, but I guess it is the same with Android)
