Help us to test new Weather Radar overlay
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As we are continuously improving Windy, we’ve never stopped thinking to create – and expand – the 'Weather Radar' feature. However, this service is depended on various data providers, and each country has a different policy regarding the management of these data (see https://on.windy.com/RadarDataGathering).
So far, our radar layer has been covering the USA (including Hawaii and coastal parts of Alaska), South Korea and a couple of islands in the North Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean.
After a period of hard work, now we are excited to announce that the long-anticipated Weather radar for a large part of Europe is out! Radar is covering the area from Spain to Finland (see this table). We are gathering radar data for other countries and we will be adding them slowly but surely.
Check this most beautiful composite:
Shortened version of this link: https://on.windy.com/WeatherRadarTesting
Blog post: https://blog.windy.com/help-us-test-our-new-weather-radar-overlay
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Really nice. Wondering about no coverage in Italy? No data?
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Yeah, it's really beautiful! It's a shame that there is no official, free, comprehensive radar composite by the EU (at least for all the countries that offer free radar data). You are doing amazing work! 👍
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The text about the publishers should be have a background color, it's hard to read
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Is it possible to still get the latest radar return as a ghost effect while the animation history replays?
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@TomSlavkovsky
Hi, could you give a way to get access to the European radar overlay with iPad (by a link?). My Mac is definitively out. Thanks -
What a great update!
In my opinion there is only one suggestion for improvements:
The radar data is too much smoothened. Even when you switch off the smoothing, maximums are killed.
You need to see the highest intensity, but this is only possible when you zoom in. This way convective precipitation won't be underestimated so much.
Thanks a lot for your and your teams tremendous effort! -
@s-m "The radar data is too much smoothened.":
Yes, we know about this and will try to improve it. Thank you for your feedback! -
@falcong This feature was not understood by "average user".
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For Italy, I found this list of differente radar sites (EU, Swiss, Italian), but I have no idea how to access the data http://www.astrogeo.va.it/radar/radar.php one of these is the Government page http://www.protezionecivile.gov.it/jcms/it/mappa_radar.wp
For Northern Italy we have also this http://www.centrometeolombardo.com/radar/ but again no idea on how to access source
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There is no pop-up in my Firefox-Browser (setting for pop-up is on)...
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@tomber42 Will be added soon as well. The data were challenge.
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@tomslavkovsky said in Help us to test new Weather Radar overlay:
@tomber42 Will be added soon as well. The data were challenge.
OK, fine. Is the test over? because i did not get the pop up for the radar layer anymore?!
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@s-m yes, i think it is too much smoothened. Here is a example of an really nice radar visualisation..in my opinion. https://kachelmannwetter.com/de/regenradar
Greetings from Tomber
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@tomber42 Even though I get your point, I don't agree with you on this one. Imho the Windy version looks way better and modern.
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Is this new layer available in the Android App? Because on my Samsung S8 it did not work
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Great! Would it be possible to overlay weather radar and wind?
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The game I was playing and sonmething I had watched on the 'Windyty'.So it is so great!!!
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@svenson
Weather radars show rain/snow in the near past. The wind overlay is forecasted wind ... in the futur. So difficult to mix them.
At least you can select Reported wind and Radar, you will have both rain and wind, but not sure at the same time. -
Great! Include Brazil too. :D
