I am an addicted kiter, helicopter, and jet pilot who seeks the wind, waves, METARs, and powder snow almost constantly. Since programming is my passion, I coded Windyty.com in 2014 as my pet project. The original version was highly inspired by the products from the Swiss company Meteoblue and another project called "Earth", which displayed animated wind particles on the globe. I have completely rewritten the open source codes of Earth and also made an agreement with Meteoblue to use some of their products at that time. And thus Windyty was born (renamed Windy a few years later). My goal is to keep Windy small and fast to be accessible in the most remote locations.

In 2014 Windy was born, under its former name Windyty.

In 2015 the Windy team grew to a few more programmers: Milan and Tomas. We use GFS and NEMS as the main forecast models.

In 2016 we launched Android and iOS mobile Apps and we renamed Windyty to Windytv, which turned out to be a big mistake. As one of the few companies worldwide, we use the ECMWF forecast model, considered the most accurate model available.

In 2017 our team grew to 5 people and we changed the name to Windy with a nice and short address www.windy.com. During hurricane season Windy became the major source of weather information for governments, institutions, and individuals in affected areas, virtually saving lives.

In 2018 we launched a new European weather radar, thunderstorm forecast, and many other major innovations.

In 2019 we launched a new Satellite overlay, route planner, donations, new iOS/Android app Windy Maps, and a "reality vs. forecast" feature. We also integrated webcams.travel and lookr.com websites into the Windy. Our team grew to 15 people.

In 2020 we launched a new Air Quality overlay, optical flow, and enhanced satellite layer. Much better and detailed 1-hour forecast data, updated 4 times a day, became available with the Windy Premium.

In 2021, two new ICON forecast models were integrated - ICON-D2 with local coverage for central and west Europe and ICON Global. Thousands of new air quality stations monitoring primary pollutants worldwide were added from our partners OpenAQ and PurpleAir to fight air inequality.

Several new layers were launched - Tidal currents featuring high-resolution data; the Sea currents dataset was updated; Thermals layer with soaring forecast for glider and paraglider pilots; Drought monitoring layers - Soil moisture, Moisture anomaly, and Drought intensity, monitoring global drought.

We also expanded into the wear OS category and introduced Windy Apple Watch App. The 3D Globe mode was brought back for most layers (desktop only), including the Hurricane Tracker.

In 2022, we launched several new features and improved existing ones. In the beginning of the year, we added a new radioactivity set of stations as a POI overlay and partnered with SaveEcoBot, run by a non-profit organisation SaveDnipro, and obtained a broad spectrum of environmental data sources in Ukraine and offer them in an easy-to-access way to our users and other affected communities for free.

New local models HRRR for the US and ACCESS model for Australia were added, along with a set of layers wet-bulb temperature, UV Index and Solar power.

With release of iOS16, the Windy.com iOS app got LockScreen widgets, which can be placed on the phones's locked screen. A new significant iOS feature.

For the Hurricane season, we launched redesigned and upgraded our Hurricane Tracker and added multimodel forecast & LIVE satellite visualization. Users in the US could also appreciate an improved radar resolution and coverage.

And to make accessing Windy even easier, we introduced social login option that let's you use existing login information from a social network providers like Facebook, Apple, and Google.

Our goal is to provide the best weather forecasting service in the world.

The original "launch" video from 2014:

Windy team as of 2019 in front of our satellite dish

Jobs: Opened positions (in Prague, Czechia, EU) can be found here

Contact: Contact us here in Your Feedback and Suggestions category or in General discussion category so we can share your issue with other Windy users.

You can also contact us on our social media:

Facebook @ windyforecast

Twitter @ windycom

Instagram @ windy_forecast

For email communication, please use info[at]windy.com.

Investor relations: Windy is a private company owned by its founder and employees.

Note: Updated Nov 2022