Option to toggle On/Off the Rain Radar 'Forecast' section?
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It would be amazing for a toggle to turn off the totally useless and inaccurate radar forecast. I'll settle for the bug being fixed. It is very annoying, I have gone back to using the BOM rain radar rather than Windy.
Very disappointing either way. A bug or an intentional feature. Although making a once useful page entirely useless intentionally seems par for the course these days.
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@TerminallyTired
If you leave the radar loop playing on the white timeline, where is the issue ?
Don’t toggle on the red timeline to get only real radar data. -
I think the problem is when you want to look at the past just a few frames without playing the whole sequence it's difficult to get back to the latest frame. I've just tried it now on Android, tired to go to the latest frame at it said "0 minutes ago" which of course you'd assume is the latest but of course it actually wasn't. You basically have to close the app down and then reopen it to know you're really at the latest frame again which is a bit annoying.
Perhaps if Windy are determined to keep it without having the option to turn off there could be a latest frame button so you definitely know you're back at the beginning?
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@uktim32 said
You basically have to close the app down
Do You really need to close the app?
On iOS, if you press the Play button, the loop on the white timeline starts and stops briefly when it reaches the last frame before starting again. If you press the Stop button during the brief stop, you get the last frame of the loop.
For me, the problem occurs when you want to manually scroll the timeline. There is no stop between the white timeline and the red one (future) and therefore it is not possible to manually block the last frame. -
I'm more thinking of about using it as a hands free option when driving whilst storm chasing. Having to press buttons at exact times is no good for me.
It was a problem that occurred last year. I was chasing a storm, probably looked at the last few frames. About 15 minutes later the sky looked nothing like the radar presentation but that was because it was stuck on some past frame and not at the latest.
The long and the short of it is many people would find it useful to disable the future forecast when not required.
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@idefix37 It does not stay on the white timeline. It jumps to playing the red timeline only, usually after viewing a different tab/window for a short time in the browser.
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I've also been experiencing this bug the last few months.
I have windy open in the corner on one monitor in radar mode all the time. After a little while, it will skip out of the white 'real data' mode and then shift across to only playing the red forecast mode. This is without any intervention or input. If i click back into the white bar it will then loop only the white bar for a while until it pops again and gets stuck in forecast mode.
Id settle for either disabling forecast mode as an option or fixing the bug.
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My vote is to allow the users to disable the "forecast" so it's removed from sight. This setting can be a cloud saved setting like the 1h/3h switch.
https://community.windy.com/post/181799 -
I also am experiencing this bug. Please fix this Windy.
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@TerminallyTired said in Option to toggle On/Off the Rain Radar 'Forecast' section?:
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I am experiencing the same thing here. I have a Windows PC running Chrome (also does the same thing in Edge) that only runs the radar. It is displayed on our TV's in our hospital. Nothing else is going on with this PC and after some time, minutes to hours, it changes to the red section and only shows the future radar. Moving the yellow dot back to the white slider corrects this for a while and then reverts back to the red section on it's own. I have had this issue for a number of months now.
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@pcutter Hi, we have this issue already in plans to have fixed it. Thank you for your patience.
