How to setup an alert for *no rain* ?

CapGuy

Hello,

I set alerts with "0 ml" of rain for 24h, but I receive alerts even rain is in forecast...
I wonder how to receive alerts only when there is no rain at all for 24h... How to do please ?

BTW : thanks so much for this amazing Windy system ! :-D

Best Regards,
Guy

TomSlavkovsky

Hi Guy, strange, could you send me the alert number? Are you using the same weather model?

macdev

@TomSlavkovsky same here. It looks like it is interpreted as written „at least 0mm of rain“
This doesn’t make sense to me.
I often get alerts where Wind would be perfect for flying but it is raining all day long.
For Paragliders a Combination of no rain and wind would be great for an alert.

Gkikas LGPZ

@macdev
I think you need an alert for "up to 0mm of rain" instead of "at least 0mm of rain".

macdev

@Gkikas-LGPZ You're right but I guess they don't have it yet https://community.windy.com/topic/5644/maximum-precipitation-in-alerts

AndyMLiverpool

@TomSlavkovsky Is there any news on this at all Tom? Much like the rest of the community, and for obvious reasons I would like to be alerted when there is NO rain, rather than when there is an x amount of rain as a minimum... :)

samik83

Any news on this?
The "no rain" criteria would be quite helpfull. I'd assume most people who use this app are checking aviation weather.

Korina

@samik83 Hello, there are no news yet, but it is definitely on our to-do list for a right timing.

hurricanehunter1

thanks btw

michroz

@Korina - The settings for Alert are really ''not enough''. It is nice to know it is in your to-do list, but we understand the adequate interface for Alert construction is not an easy design job to do and it will almost certainly look either too complicated or too limiting. Somebody wants ''at least'', other want ''no more than''. Somebody wants ''AND'', other want ''OR''...
I have a suggestion:
Why don't you guys publish the RULES, which people could use directly in their URLs to construct their Alerts the way they need? Or just give an additional text control where capable people could write something SQL-like.
Like me - I'd prefer minimum rain rather than ''no rain''. And also, since the forecast is changing with the time, it would be great to have the alert time configurable.
Thanks!

Korina

@michroz Hello, thank you for your feedback. Such option would be indeed complicated.
Once we collect more feedbacks from users, we will think about the best design possible.

justinlimbo

Ok. Here is some more user feedback. 😊
For most outdoor activities/sports where wind or weather in general is important (that's why you have the alert function, right?), it makes more sense to have a no rain or max rain alert.

My wild guess would be it's just a very small minority of people who would activate an alert and say "ok, i'll just go out hiking/kiting/flying/sailing/fishing when it rains at least 5mm for three hours." 🤔

Might be different though for farmers and the like.

sebster

I'm also missing the "no rain" option for alerts.

Indeed, it's for doing outdoor activities: such and such wind, and NO rain...

Would be VERY useful to have.

Regards,
Sebastiaan

Korina

@sebster Hello, thank you for suggestion, we will think about it.

windylad

I would like to throw my vote in for this feature too.

I would rather say alert me when no or little rain is due, not the other way :)