Suggestion: Enable/Disable Drought Alerts for Agency-Only Map and Notifications
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Hi everyone,
I’d like to propose a feature enhancement that could benefit many users: the ability to toggle drought alerts on or off.
Currently, many weather apps and platforms issue various alerts, including drought notifications. While these are important, some of us may prefer to receive alerts only from official meteorological agencies (e.g., severe storms, flooding) without the additional notifications related to long-term conditions like droughts.
Having a setting to enable or disable drought alerts specifically would allow users to streamline their notifications based on what’s most relevant to them. For instance:
Enable Drought Alerts: Users who rely on drought data (e.g., farmers, water management professionals) can keep these alerts active.
Disable Drought Alerts: Users who only want immediate weather warnings can turn these off while still receiving critical updates from official agencies.
This customization would improve user experience by allowing us to focus on the notifications that matter most.What do you think? Would this be useful to others here? Let me know your thoughts!
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What you are showing is a Warning layer. These are not alerts. I don't think you can receive notifications based on these warnings. Or maybe I missed something.
Have you ever received notifications about an upcoming drought? -
@idefix37 I want to see only Agency-Only Warnings. Not the combined Drought Warnings and Agency Warnings.
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@Valencia_WX
Sorry, the warning notifications related to the weather warning layer do appear on the home page under the 4-day forecast at startup.
By the way see how the Drought warnings are issued
https://community.windy.com/topic/31110/imagem-defeituosa?_=1710772642041 -
@idefix37 Could we use separate layers instead? One for global drought warnings and another for agency-specific warnings? Combining these layers makes it a bit challenging to clearly see the agency warnings.
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@Valencia_WX
Only developers can answer your request -
@Valencia_WX @Suty Another suggestion here :D
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@Valencia_WX Hi, there are no plans to make any changes there.
