Users of Windy: why do you want historical weather data?
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@johnckealy I see this thread is a bit old, but thought I would respond anyway. As an aviation accident investigator most all of my work is forensic in nature, and the ability to efficiently pull historical weather information is extremely valuable. Always looking for more "tools" to put in my toolbox, I really like how intuitive and simple to use this application is, and I can load up a flight track from radar or ADS-B in a matter of seconds. With historical weather information available, I can get a "quick look" at the weather at a particular time of an accident flight track in seconds and make this information available to other investigators responding before ever even arriving on site. Absolutely invaluable. Just thought I'd chime in and let you know maybe something some don't think too much about!
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As a backcountry skier, being able to review the last 24 – 72 hours of wind history would be extremely helpful to understand where I'm likely to encounter slopes that have been wind-loaded with snow. This is frequently a major route planning consideration. Would be happy to pay for this as a "premium" feature.
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very simply to plan a long passage. eg .shall I do it in may or september?
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@Mais78
With the purpose of long passage, you better use the Pilot Charts, which give a probability of wind and current month by month. -
If historical model data would be available, I’d use them for evaluating in retrospect which model would have given me the best forecast. In my case data for the last week would suffice for that purpose.
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In this case you could use the Observation vs Forecast feature. The forecast was displayed at same time with observed wind and temperature during several days. Unfortunately at the moment the past forecast is shown only for few hours. But this feature should be back in future.
https://community.windy.com/topic/9425/how-to-use-the-observation-vs-forecast-feature
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@idefix37 said in Users of Windy: why do you want historical weather data?:
In this case you could use the Observation vs Forecast feature. The forecast was displayed at same time with observed wind and temperature during several days. Unfortunately at the moment the past forecast is shown only for few hours. But this feature should be back in future.
https://community.windy.com/topic/9425/how-to-use-the-observation-vs-forecast-feature
Thank you very much—got it, works.
Btw, I didn't realize this was an old thread already but it was my first post here and someone else had pushed this topic to the top :)
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Really late chiming in but just wanted to say this is a fantastic discussion and really enjoyed reading it. :)
A slightly different usage that I'm more familiar with is to understand building energy consumption in relations to weather, for instance for electricity demand prediction and building energy simulation. Weather is such a big driver in this area that without historical weather data, it would be very difficult to plan and design critical infrastructures (buildings, electricity grid) that we all depend on.
Joseph
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Hi dear admins,
on 10.10.2021 (afternoon) we sailed over Kvarner bay in Croatia.
There exists a virtual Spot named "Virtual Buoy Northadria".
As we had pretty high (but aible to sail) waves, I'm curious about the values of wave hight.
Just to compare experienced waves to forecasts in future trips.
(We had no internet connection at this time.)Is it possible to get these values?
Thanks a lot in advance
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@nickis Hello, it is not possible, we do not store any historical data at the moment.
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@korina OK, thanks. Then I will stop searching.
Anyway, thank you a lot for your job!!
