New Snow/Ice Overlay Makes Map Unreadable
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Just adding a comment to further boost this. Hopefully... If Windy says it listens to suggestions, then please do.
Give us an option to disable that eyesore or remove it entirely. Or, instead of that unusable, ugly overlay, maybe use a different color scale like others suggested and like almost every other app/website shows different precipitation types.
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I hadn't seen the issue until I looked at the exmples above as my area rarely has snow.
I like that the layer now discriminates between precipitation types but do agree others like netweather.tv do it better.
On netweather.tv it displays rain as blue, sleet as green and snow as pink.
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I couldn't take it any more either, I sent a bug report! Either make the snow layer selectable, make the snow flake transparency adjustable or change it to a color scale and not the snow flake symbols.
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It's not a bug, just a UI choice that you don't like.
It is now selectable in the browser version
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Any idea is/when there will be an option to turn it off on the phone app? You can't view the underlying map data. Should be an option or make the overlay very transparent. Great app otherwise, but this is not so good. Thanks in advance!
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I absolutely hate this snowflake option in the mobile app. If they don't make it selectable I'm cancelling.👎👎
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First, I love Windy. I've used it for years, and 99% of what Windy provides is better than any alternative.
But like others, I unfortunately signed up today specifically to provide the same feedback: the new winter overlay is horrid. Since it's a white snowflake graphic overlay, it actually does make it harder to read. It's looks almost fuzzy or blurry and much harder to differentiate than you'd expect.
More critically, which is vital during this current storm, there is no differentiation between snow or sleet--simply frozen or non-frozen precip. (Contrast a competitor claiming to be "Accurate" -- they use the normal shading for rain, blue tones for snow, and pink tones for ice). Living in an area where we're frequently on the snow/ice line, it's hugely important to know--snow is impacting; ice can shut us down.
Please please please find a better way to present this, and distinguish ice versus snow.
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@ARadloff said in New Snow/Ice Overlay Makes Map Unreadable:
I absolutely hate this snowflake option in the mobile app. If they don't make it selectable I'm cancelling.👎👎
@algorithmn said in New Snow/Ice Overlay Makes Map Unreadable:
Any idea is/when there will be an option to turn it off on the phone app? You can't view the underlying map data. Should be an option or make the overlay very transparent. Great app otherwise, but this is not so good. Thanks in advance!
@idefix37 will confirm this but I believe the mobile update is out either next week or very soon
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@WeatherMan10
The beta version of the mobile app (v49) offers this setting. So surely available with the next update. -
I just remember @suty saying that it should be out next week or very soon in another thread
EDIT; found it https://community.windy.com/topic/43331/kml-files-disappearing/7?_=1769361633791
it's another issue but he says in a week or 2.
