Windy's Version 41 is here and brings new features!
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Honestly, I love the now-casting feature. I've been doing it manually on Windy anyway by using the distance plotter and estimated distance covered by cells in a specific time period. Super cool! I love where the devs are taking the app. It's undoubtedly one of the most powerful weather tools in my arsenal, and I use it daily in both my day-to-day life as well as in my capacity as a commercial pilot for big-picture weather information.
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My Feedback: I first will say Windy is one of or is the best weather website. Thanks!
Regarding Version 41: Unfortunately, I do not like the "Radar Nowcasting" as it is easy enough to extrapolate what will happen in one hour in my head as it is to see the simulation. If the simulation someday became dynamic (as opposed to static), that would be a different story. Thanks again, Larry Falk -
@lawrencefalk Hi, can you please explain this in a detail, what exactly do you mean by static and dynamic simulation?
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@Polina-Nozdrina esto es excelente.
Tener una visualización de este tipo, es como tener una esfera de cristal que nos dice el futuro. -
I really like the Windy app for it's detailed and precise interface. Didn't find any other app that would come even close.
But I don't like the 'nowcasting' at all. Very dumb 'optical flow extrapolation'. Anybody could visually estimate the same, if not better. But that feature blocks some valuable space from the slider bar.Please remove that dumb 'nowcasting' and leave such bad features to all the stupid apps out there. Windy is better than the rest. We don't need that optical flow extrapolation.
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I love the new forecasting radar! Like many others, it was a feature I was hoping would one day be implemented; it was a pleasant surprise to see it when I was tracking storms in my area. Keep up the great work! I'm always astonished by the new features the Windy Team keeps adding. Thank you.
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As a pilot, Windy is my go-to app. The new features will be helpful with flight planning with Clear Air Turbulence being particularly helpful. My favorite feature in the Windy app is the Meteogram with its different forecasting models. The ability to pull up METARs and quickly view the skew-T log-P sounding forecast is invaluable. Thank you to the developers!
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@Polina-Nozdrina
At 77 I'm blown away! (Pun alert)
Y'all have moved weather reporting from an art to a deep layered science.
Any predictions on when our wonderful world will providentially transform from ungodliness to a pleasant place for us peasants?
Thanks to you all for all the passion put into the works!!
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The radar nowcasting feature is fantastic, especially for hikers/trekkers like me! Love it ❤️ however, rather than a simple optical flow extrapolation, you may want to experiment with one of the numerous machine learning models for nowcasting. See https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/15/21/5197 https://www.ecmwf.int/en/about/media-centre/science-blog/2023/rise-machine-learning-weather-forecasting?t https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03552-y?t Anyway, excited about this feature - I already put it to good use during my last hike, and I’m looking forward to using it many more times!
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I noticed the future radar feature came out recently, but when you view the future radar, the map
Glitches. This is on windows ten and my
iPhone 12 doesn’t even have the feature on the windy app. Premium member here n wish they could have improved it before the release. Always viewed Windy as the go to, but now I’m skeptical if they display faulty data -
@Elsa-Ann-Winter
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I do like the Radar Nowcasting but agree with others that it would be nice to have an easier way to return to the most recent radar image. Thanks for the continued improvements!
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@PleaseBeamMeUp
You just need to click on the white timeline. So easy. -
@lange-hape Hi, we knew about the huge interest in this feature so we decided to manage it for our users. Regarding the using the rest of the timeline, we still offer same scope, despite smaller visual size.
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Thanks for the new features. But, really, still no heat index?
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@Birnam-Brae I agree! This would be particularly useful when travelling to other places so you can carry with you proper clothes. :D
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Guys, could you please elaborate a bit more on nowcasting? Do models such as Arome and ECMWF provide such thing? And what led you to add it in the first place?
I am not an expert, but wouldn't it be more useful to have a % chance of precipitation map for say like the next 30-60 min? That would be so cool. -
Hi @alphadan
The source of radar data is usually the national weather service of each country. Therefore, a single source or model does not make the weather radar . To be more precise, it's a radar composite of these different sources. You can tell that the weather radar quality varies around the globe (quality = frequency of images, resolution, handling interference, etc.).Since we know the movement of precipitation several hours in the past, we can extrapolate the next movement of this precipitation to the next hour. This part is purely our work.
A chance of rain in the next 30 - 60 minutes would be nice, but you can see it beautifully on the nowcasting radar. :)
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@Birnam-Brae
As far as I know, there is no such thing in the plan. The wet-bulb temperature layer can do the trick pretty well, don't you think? -
Windy Radar is an accurate and detailed source at this time and I use, although I still combine with the situation and conditions real time, as well as using weather aids, due to activity in SAR (search and rescue) and often in disaster areas in Indonesia (at the moment hydrometeorological disaster is happening in Indonesia).
Thank you for the update and I hope to go ahead with more features that are granted without reducing accuracy and precision levels.
