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    Changing the default forecast provider

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    • Vio OpreaV Offline
      Vio Oprea | Premium
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      I live in Europe and for me ECMWF is not the best data provider for forecast I can get in Windy. I have always charged from default to another data provider, so I think it would be a good idea to implement a choice for user from default to favorite. When my favorite data provider doesn’t exist for a specific zone of the world then the app can switch automatically to default.

      Thank you

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        AllanH @Vio Oprea | Premium
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        @Vio-Oprea said in Changing the default forecast provider:

        I live in Europe and for me ECMWF is not the best data provider for forecast I can get in Windy. I have always charged from default to another data provider, so I think it would be a good idea to implement a choice for user from default to favorite. When my favorite data provider doesn’t exist for a specific zone of the world then the app can switch automatically to default.

        Thank you

        I would like to be able to choose my default model. The ECMWF is the least useful of all of them. It is less precise and has the longest update cycle. I always have to immediately click to HRRR or NAM to see what I want to see, and then repeat when I go back and forth from the sat. or radar. to a forecast map. Plus, being the American that I am, I don't trust the Europeans to predict my weather (only joking).

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          Filip_K Windy Staff @Vio Oprea
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          Hi @Vio-Oprea and @AllanH, I believe that as premium users, You can set startup overlay to be the last used (in the settings):
          Screenshot_20240828_152700.png

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            enterfornone @Filip_K
            last edited by enterfornone

            @Filip_K I wish people would stop giving this inadequate suggestion every time a "default" model is requested.
            This is not achieving the purpose!

            The user above asked for the forecast. What purpose "last overlay" serves to give the forecast? None! What if you start the app from the widget? No bueno again.

            Here's one of the previous threads, when same was requested, same "solution" was given and I explained why this "solution" is nothing like the requested.

            https://community.windy.com/post/194436

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            • Filip_KF Offline
              Filip_K Windy Staff @enterfornone
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              Hi @enterfornone, understood. At the moment, there is unfortunately no way to set the default forecast model.

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