Cloud color scale incorrect
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The color scale at the bottom of the screen for clouds shows a rainfall scale.
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@tjpapetti
The color scale shown on the Clouds layer is for rainfall. Rain appears as small dots in the Clouds layer. So this is not incorrect.
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The dots representing rain on top of the color representing clouds is so confusing that I can't tell what I am looking at. Are you saying that the rain dots have a color scale that matches the rain scale on the lower-right of the screen? If so, that feature is unreadable to me and is of no use.
But my point is that the purpose of this layer is primarily to represent CLOUD cover, which it does nicely except no color legend is displayed without opening up the customize color scale screen.
So I respectfully request that this feature be reviewed for validity and best implementation. I would like a way to easily view clouds and know what the color scale means.
An improvement would be to display a color legend for cloud cover at the lower-right of the screen and then anyone interested in and capable of using the rain dot color could go to the customize color scale screen to see the scale.
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Thanks, I think! I guess I could print that out and tape it to my monitor! Otherwise, how can I get that to be on my screen?
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Hi @tjpapetti, the cloud color scale that @idefix37 posted is visible in the
Customize color scalemenu.
Cloudsoverlay display combination of total clouds and precipitation, but only color scale for precipitation is part of legend because it is more complicated.You can customize the cloud color scale to your liking if you need something more memorable. Or keep the
Customize color scalemenu open. That is not ideal, but allows displaying both color scales:
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Thank you for the reply. Yes, I am familiar with customizing the color scale and the option of keeping the customize color scale screen open. It is just frustrating that Clouds is the only layer that does not display a color scale for the name of the layer.
It's like having the Temperature layer show the legend for Humidity and having to keep the Customize Color Scale window open in order to see the Temperature color scale.
I'll add a reason for my particular concern, besides wanting to see a screen the easily represents cloud cover: 8% of men (including me) are red-green color-blind or worse. And this category of color blindness makes red, green, and brown look alike, dark colors all look black, light colors all look white, pink and beige and light green look alike , chartreuse the same as orange, and purple looks the same as either red or blue depending on the specific purple. People like me have very poor "color memory" even for colors that we can distinguish when side-by-side. So having the color scale that represents the layer (Clouds in this case) automatically visible on the screen in an unobtrusive way is very important.
The ability to create custom color scales is very important since default scales usually make no consideration for color blindness and many web sites and apps provide no ability to choose custom color scales. The fact that Windy has customizable color scale is a bug plus, but the procedure that one must go through to change color scale is VERY tedious and could use some re-engineering. -
@tjpapetti said in Cloud color scale incorrect:
It is just frustrating that Clouds is the only layer that does not display a color scale for the name of the layer.
You said that you are color-blind, so how can you use a color scale ?
If you look at Medium clouds layer there is a color scale. Can you read it? Personally I can’t, even if I’m not color-blind. I definitely prefer to use the weather picker.
The solution is to make your own customized color scale, non-smoothed, like this one. Then it is easy to remember the color steps.
Let me know if it suits your needs. May be a blue color would be better for you.
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@idefix37
Sorry, it's taken me a while to get back to this. Your suggestions for how to create a color scale that works for me and is easy to remember are good; I have actually already done that. My problem is that I still have to "memorize" my custom scale, which is difficult for a "colorblind" person. I described in a previous message what "red-green color blindness" (the deutan type anomalous dichromacy type of color deficiency) is like. So my requests for Windy remain:- Display the color legend for (all) Clouds on the Clouds layer, just as color legends are displayed for all other layer names.
- To make the process of creating custom color maps easier.
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You said that you are color-blind, so how can you use a color legend ?
Strange that you can’t remember 4 color steps. The weather picker should help you.
