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After months of development we have have released experimental version of weather radar for USA. Just in order to be helpful in tracking hurricane Harvey.

Our coders @dzuremar (backend) and Milan (webGL renderer) did a great job, but this is just early release, full of issues and bugs.

Please be patient with us. Next releases will be better.

Ivo

]]>https://community.windy.com/topic/4291/testers-wanted-weather-radar-usaRSS for NodeWed, 15 Apr 2026 17:08:24 GMTThu, 24 Aug 2017 18:43:18 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Testers wanted: Weather radar USA! on Tue, 05 Dec 2017 18:19:29 GMT]]>@orlandoradar I'm interested in learning more about the Cuba radars and the availability of the data in NEXRAD Level II format. Could you please direct message me?

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/8950https://community.windy.com/post/8950Tue, 05 Dec 2017 18:19:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Testers wanted: Weather radar USA! on Thu, 14 Sep 2017 08:27:38 GMT]]>@rkopper How about other browsers (e.g. safari, firefox) ? Then again, this sounds like a be problem with WebGL :/ it would be helpful if you could provide some more details, but thanks anyway for the feedback.

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/7307https://community.windy.com/post/7307Thu, 14 Sep 2017 08:27:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Testers wanted: Weather radar USA! on Wed, 13 Sep 2017 22:45:52 GMT]]>I can't see the radar feature with google chrome browser!

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/7294https://community.windy.com/post/7294Wed, 13 Sep 2017 22:45:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Testers wanted: Weather radar USA! on Tue, 12 Sep 2017 06:08:36 GMT]]>@J.D. No name of the goat.

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/7242https://community.windy.com/post/7242Tue, 12 Sep 2017 06:08:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Testers wanted: Weather radar USA! on Mon, 11 Sep 2017 21:23:41 GMT]]>Excellent product! I love the fact that you are constantly building a better tool and this radar addition is very helpful. I do see some variation in presentation/functionality in different browsers - Google Chrome vs Firefox (OSX10.11.6) but overall Windy.com is great. I recommend it to our scientific boaters routinely.
One burning question - does the goat have a name?

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/7227https://community.windy.com/post/7227Mon, 11 Sep 2017 21:23:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Testers wanted: Weather radar USA! on Mon, 11 Sep 2017 18:19:31 GMT]]>Wind overlay to match the time line would make even more useful.

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/7222https://community.windy.com/post/7222Mon, 11 Sep 2017 18:19:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Testers wanted: Weather radar USA! on Mon, 11 Sep 2017 11:31:11 GMT]]>Awesome app and this new feature really enables it all to be brought together with the rain radar, etc. Congratulations.

When will you incorporate Australia?? :-)

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/7214https://community.windy.com/post/7214Mon, 11 Sep 2017 11:31:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Testers wanted: Weather radar USA! on Mon, 11 Sep 2017 07:51:36 GMT]]>@chstdu Thank you very much for the useful info !! Multiple people from Germany already mentioned this, it is on our priority list. This kind of "movement" makes us really happy since most EU countries still don't provide their data for free. We already have EU radar prototype covering few countries, but it will take more time until it is ready to go public.

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/7206https://community.windy.com/post/7206Mon, 11 Sep 2017 07:51:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Testers wanted: Weather radar USA! on Mon, 11 Sep 2017 07:46:57 GMT]]>@JentheGeek Could be, there is definitely difference between having image composites and raw data (we prefer raw data as you have much more freedom in how to process and display them), but free image composite is still better than nothing ! Read more about this topic here and feel free to contribute as well. Thanks for your suggestion !

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/7205https://community.windy.com/post/7205Mon, 11 Sep 2017 07:46:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Testers wanted: Weather radar USA! on Mon, 11 Sep 2017 03:32:06 GMT]]>It is a great feature. I live in Orlando, FL and watched the Hurricane Irma made land fall on Keys. All three models were predicting Irma would hit Tampa. That is, lesser impact on Orlando. However, the radar is showing straight northward path now. I think the Hurricane Center should update their prediction soon. I like the long hour record the best, since it shows clear path of the storm. However, the iPhone and iPad version of radar are kind of hit-and-miss missing images.

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/7196https://community.windy.com/post/7196Mon, 11 Sep 2017 03:32:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Testers wanted: Weather radar USA! on Mon, 11 Sep 2017 00:31:50 GMT]]>Great feature Ivo. For the "on click" It just says "Weather Radar" and then beneath the option for the "forecast for this location". Might be nice in the future to give something more... Maybe wind direction?

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/7190https://community.windy.com/post/7190Mon, 11 Sep 2017 00:31:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Testers wanted: Weather radar USA! on Sun, 10 Sep 2017 20:11:45 GMT]]>@ivo I am not sure how much technical knowledge one needs to be a tester, but as a member of Michigan Geographic Alliance, and a teacher trainer, It would be neat to make use of this for students or share with other members. Lessons can be created and material are given free to teachers from the teacher trainers in the Alliance. There are alliances in every state and they were all stated with seed money from National Geographic. What do you think?

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/7178https://community.windy.com/post/7178Sun, 10 Sep 2017 20:11:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Testers wanted: Weather radar USA! on Sun, 10 Sep 2017 20:07:58 GMT]]>@ivo Would like to have seen depth of water so one can tell if there are surges and how deep they might be.
If able to be more specific, go into neighborhoods or possible specific addresses.

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/7177https://community.windy.com/post/7177Sun, 10 Sep 2017 20:07:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Testers wanted: Weather radar USA! on Sun, 10 Sep 2017 17:23:12 GMT]]>Cuban radars could be added. This is very simple, because we use NEXRAD ORPG to proccess information from all our radars, so we export in NEXRAD Level II format. Please contac me if you are interested.

Orlando L. Rodríguez González
Director Centro Nacional de Radares
Instituto de Meteorología de Cuba

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/7173https://community.windy.com/post/7173Sun, 10 Sep 2017 17:23:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Testers wanted: Weather radar USA! on Sun, 10 Sep 2017 16:41:21 GMT]]>Just found your site. Weather radar is a great addition. What I really like is the 12 hour time lapse. Great for watching the progression of storms. I live in Oklahoma so this will be great during tornado season.

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/7169https://community.windy.com/post/7169Sun, 10 Sep 2017 16:41:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Testers wanted: Weather radar USA! on Sun, 10 Sep 2017 14:13:30 GMT]]>@dzuremar The data from the German Meteorological Office (Deutscher Wetterdienst - DWD) is freely available since a change in the DWD Act, which has come into effect on 25th July 2017. It also includes all the radar data - composite, raw and 2h forecast - from the 17 German weather radars every 5 minutes! http://www.dwd.de/EN/ourservices/opendata/opendata.html

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/7160https://community.windy.com/post/7160Sun, 10 Sep 2017 14:13:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Testers wanted: Weather radar USA! on Sun, 10 Sep 2017 12:39:21 GMT]]>
  • Looks real good to me.....Look forward to any additions.
]]>https://community.windy.com/post/7155https://community.windy.com/post/7155Sun, 10 Sep 2017 12:39:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Testers wanted: Weather radar USA! on Sun, 10 Sep 2017 11:15:35 GMT]]>Amazing, very detailed, splendid job.

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/7152https://community.windy.com/post/7152Sun, 10 Sep 2017 11:15:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Testers wanted: Weather radar USA! on Sun, 10 Sep 2017 10:43:02 GMT]]>At the bottom right, there is a scale dbm, i think it says. Also says that we can change it but it does not. But Great job, I enjoy it a lot!

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/7151https://community.windy.com/post/7151Sun, 10 Sep 2017 10:43:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Testers wanted: Weather radar USA! on Sun, 10 Sep 2017 08:46:53 GMT]]>@DrSteve78
Watching Irma bear down on us, best graphics i've seen to easily understand

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/7143https://community.windy.com/post/7143Sun, 10 Sep 2017 08:46:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Testers wanted: Weather radar USA! on Sun, 10 Sep 2017 08:42:42 GMT]]>@bkaupe
Mac 10.12.5 and Safari Technology Preview (beta)...Works awesomely for me

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/7142https://community.windy.com/post/7142Sun, 10 Sep 2017 08:42:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Testers wanted: Weather radar USA! on Sun, 10 Sep 2017 03:39:30 GMT]]>why not add other places
eg taiwan
http://www.cwb.gov.tw/V7e/observe/radar/index2.htm?radar=1

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/7137https://community.windy.com/post/7137Sun, 10 Sep 2017 03:39:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Testers wanted: Weather radar USA! on Sun, 10 Sep 2017 03:23:47 GMT]]>I'm based in Western Australia and have been using Windy for a couple of months. Excellent info for my needs and I've recently downloaded the phone app.
This experimental version looks good. Hope you can get the weather radar data for Australia - will be very useful in our cyclone season. At present I look at Windy first then at www.bom.gov.au for approaching rainfall.

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/7136https://community.windy.com/post/7136Sun, 10 Sep 2017 03:23:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Testers wanted: Weather radar USA! on Sun, 10 Sep 2017 00:52:41 GMT]]>This is fantastic!!! Windy and NOAA are my are my go to sites, both when Im home in the states and on my rock. Looking forward to seeing how the "final" version is/looks.

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/7127https://community.windy.com/post/7127Sun, 10 Sep 2017 00:52:41 GMT