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      Theo Carter
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      Hi Guys,
      I saw somewhere in the notes that it is possible to have wind barbs, I would love to have that to display, how to do? Theo

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        Béarez @Theo Carter
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        So do I!!!

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          lihui3007 @Béarez
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          @Béarez

          so do

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            idefix37 Sailor Moderator @lihui3007
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            @lihui3007

            I don’t think Windy is willing to do it.

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              UserError @idefix37
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              @idefix37 Looks that way. I found this from your post a couple of years ago ("idefix37 SAILOR MODERATOR 5 Oct 2021, 11:29
              @gian71
              This feature is not available in Windy. Wind barbs have not been the choice of Windy developers.
              This graphical way, to show both the direction and speed of wind, were specially useful when weather maps were printed in black, but much less with digital weather maps.
              Wind barbs show the wind direction same as wind particles do in Windy. They don’t do it better.")
              I hoped they'd changed their mind when I found this post... So lots of people here are expressing demand,Predictwind does it but according to Windy it's obsolete. IMO the particles don't quantitatively show the wind speed without having to click on their "more accurate" weather picker* whereas the barns show it at a glance. *is 1kt resolution actually relevant on a model anyway? Pah!

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                idefix37 Sailor Moderator @UserError
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                @UserError said in wind barbs?:

                I hoped they'd changed their mind when I found this post...

                You hoped that Windy developers would change their mind after my post ? Why would they have done it?
                If you don’t want to use the weather picker (I don’t use it generally), change the color scale of the wind like that:
                https://community.windy.com/topic/27656/about-new-android-version/5?_=1696536840273

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                  UserError @idefix37
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                  @idefix37 @idefix37 not specifically because of YOUR post, but general sentiment and demand and they might realise a percentage of customers want barbs.
                  I recently found this article, published in 2020, where they talk about barbs being a standard https://windy.app/blog/learn-to-read-wind-barbs.html - they state "it is a familiar format for displaying the wind to all meteorogists, yachtmen, and others. That's how it were drawn on the synoptic maps before, and so many people are used to seeing it. Now you can see wind barbs on digital maps, too." However, I can't find how to turn them on, if they're there at all.

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                    UserError @UserError
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                    @UserError and this? https://gallery.windy.com/albums/a/Wind2.png. From https://community.windy.com/topic/9596/how-to-use-a-route-planner/2

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                      idefix37 Sailor Moderator @UserError
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                      @UserError
                      The tutorial about wind barbs that you mentionned is from windy.app. This app has nothing to do with windy.com !

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