New Position of Altitude Slider very bad

Suty

I will discuss it with colleagues if this can be changed and I will keep you posted by Monday.

windfind

@Suty Why the major downgrade to the premium windy? I understand the need to keep phone and computer apps similar for the casual user. But people paying for premium are mostly weather professionals or nerds and should be able to keep the older version that has everything accessible not buried in unlabeled sub menus. This is especially true of the altitude adjustment. I never used your phone app because of that issue. I am struggling to understand why I should continue to pay for windy other than the hourly model updates. Thank you.

Caefix

Could the slider have a switch like choose between "keep altitude global for all layers" and "default to surface" ?

idefix37

@Suty

When setting the Altitude slider to any level aloft and then changing of layer, for instance from Wind to Temperature or Humidity, the slider is automatically back to Surface.
This needs to be fixed for weather specialists and aviators who are not constantly at ground level. May be this behaviour is useful for new users who forget they changed the altitude setting.

Suty

@idefix37 You are right and I will report this to colleagues.

Caefix

@Suty ✈ Maybe the text beside the plane could be "Altitude" at surface or the adjusted value else, in m, ft or FL?

Suty

Altitude slider will be adjusted so it will be functional without opened menu, it should be released in the next update.

hbarbosa

@Suty I use Windy all the time to teach about Atmospheric Dynamics.

This last update broke a lot of the features that I loved, and the usability of the site has become much worse!

Besides the sliding altitude selector (which obviously must be on the map for direct access)... WHY the altitude is now reset everytime we change fields?

If we plot the winds at 200 hPa, then click on temperature (which also exists at 200 hPa), the site will reset the altitude and show the values at the surface. This is obviously the wrong thing to do. If the user is looking at 200 hPa, why reset to show the surface?

Can you please fix this?

Or at least add options in the configuration to change this?

Mes00

@Jay-Withaflame
I am new to Windy, I have premium, but on the slider to change the altitude, it doesn't move it stays on Altitude: Surface, it looks like you can slide it, but you cant. Any help is appreciated.

Mark

Suty

@hbarbosa We are discussing this as well. It might be changed with the new update.

@Mes00 Can you please let me know, which layer you tried? Not all layers offer altitude change.

stitch

On A PC (in my case Windows OS), the keys "page up" and "page down" will allow you to ascend or descend through the vertical levels. I don't use the slider, I use the keyboard to skip through the levels.

jupaketto

@Suty

Thanks, I also used the altitude slider a lot with wind.