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Are there any plans to add heat index and windchill to the app (as map layers or near the temperature of 4 day forecast drawer). I would love to have those. Because depending on wind it can feel much colder and depending on humidity it can feel much hotter than actual temperature. I know there are websites where I can enter the two pieces and hit calculate and it will do the formula for me, eliminating need to memorize those lengthy formulas. But it would be nice if your website and app could just display them. That would make me go from 4/5 rating to 5/5 rating.
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@Joshua-Daniels Unfortunately, there is no plan for this.
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@Suty is it technical reason or resources or lack of interest? I looks like this has been requested by many users for the past years,,,
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@Ron-Feulner Hello,
it has been discussed in different topic here. There are currently plans to include this feature inside of Windy.com app. We will keep you informed, just follow our official channels for updated news.
Have a nice day,
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@Joshua-Daniels I will bet part of the problem is deciding which calculation to use. Windy is an international resource and there are many different ways to calculate or use look up tables with different variations in different countries. Plus what is most useful?
Feels Like Temperature
Temperature Humidity Index
Wind Chill Factor (revised in 2001)
HeatRisk
Wet Bulb Globe Temperature (WBGT) which combines temperature, humidity, wind, solar radiation, and other weather parameters.
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Why not? UTIC, Universal Thermal Climate Index, is a well established, simple to calculate meteorological data category.
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@Suty Just let you and the team know, this is why I discontinued premium. I realized that every time I tried to check the forecast or even look for current conditions on windy I would immediately go to wunderground afterwards, not because I like their interface or their radar or the site structure or the ads, I hate all of that. But they actually give a useful forecast and current conditions, partly because it displays a heat index value which is critical in my part of the world. Right now, the high for today is 91F, but the heat index is 103F, and that's the coolest it's been this week. From a human experience perspective the humidity will be the difference between being okay to go outside and get some work done in the yard and not. The temperature on the forecast chart just doesn't give enough information and the layout is so small and hard to read at a glance that it just wasn't something useful unless I had time to sit down at a computer with a large display and really look at and think about the data.
The vast majority of the new features being added are interesting, but not particularly useful day-to-day. You obviously have access to the data since it's being displayed as layers, but when things like humidity and extreme weather alerts don't make it to the forecast it makes it less useful at a glance. Unfortunately, that puts windy.com in the category of "toy" not "tool" for my spending classification, and I don't have the toy budget for any more subscriptions. I loved having access to 24 radar loops and I really miss them, but I simply couldn't justify the cost for the few things I used and the things that I saw being added were obviously going in a different direction from a practical weather app. Even something like RadarScope has become more useful because it doesn't smooth radar and it shows precise warning zones and rotation data.
I get that not everyone cares about the same data and different people care about different things, so it's hard to satisfy every request. If that's what's stopping this kind of data being presented in a more at-a-glance way, I guess my request would be a configurable "current conditions" card that you can select data from any layer to be listed. A configurable forecast would be better, but if current conditions is all we can get it would address at least 40% of the times I want a quick weather check. I'd love to be able to justify renewing my subscription.
