Can any of the Windy weather models beat Weather.com?
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This morning, the weather predictions on Windy.com for my location said "No rain," but I look outside, and it's pouring. We've had lighting and heavy rain for 2 hours.
The GFS, ECMWF, ICON, NAM, and HRRR models all missed this storm. Only MeteoBlue, a Swiss-based company, actually got it. I'm located in the USA, Central Texas, so I hoped the US-based models would catch it. But even HRRR said no rain the hour before the storm hit. But then I jump over to Weather.com and its storm prediction is dead accurate.
This isn't a one-off scenario. Has happened several times since I started using Windy this year. With a paid premium subscription, and access to more models, I thought I would have a better handle on the weather. But the free-access weather.com prediction just seems WAY better at catching these Texas storms. I'm losing face to my wife and with co-workers, and getting caught wet without an umbrella too often.
- Am I using Windy.com wrong?
- Why does weather.com have better predictions? I thought they used the same underlying data as the US models.
