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    • RAMIROJOSE1R
      RAMIROJOSE1
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      Very nice. Keep up the Good work.

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        levym
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        Very nice and valuable feature. Only complaint is that it is extremely slow to load on my PC. The speed on my phone app is just tolerable.

        Merrill C Levy

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        • TonyFT
          TonyF @ivo
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          @ivo I used it to help forecast the Pan-Am gliding competition in Canada and its working very well, thanks

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          • Jirka80J
            Jirka80 | Premium
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            I would like to be a part of your team, great work :)

            Jirka

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            • TZT
              TZ Administrator @Jirka80
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              @Jirka80 I sent you a message in chat.

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              • CG 3C
                CG 3 | Premium
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                I love it!

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                  gistpower Banned @NQ0A
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                  • rui25pR
                    rui25p
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                    Guys, the product description needs much more details. Your work is tricky, Say that the info comes from EUMETSAT it is not enough (you are using the logo of EUMETSAT without rules.) The acquisition rate of typical MSG is of 15-min and you are showing with a time step of 1min? Please identity the satellites (names,/version), channels, specify how do you transform 15-min in 1min. Are you correcting the satellite pics for the zenith angle? The ways how do you show the things is only cosmetic for visualization purposes and do not involves any type of calculation, please be correct with the science community!

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                      ht3 @ivo
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                      @iv I really do like the satellite layer- I love to watch the sun sets on the thunderheads -such a grand idea - windy is great weather -thanks for what you do -HTabor Chillicothe , Tx

                      Horace Joe Tabor III

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                      • Roberto 1sR
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                        • woutdenboerW
                          woutdenboer
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                          Perfect layer

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                            viju 0
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                            Thanks for windy team

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                              TZ Administrator @rui25p
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                              @rui25p Hi, this is the first version of the visualization and we are going to improve it. Logo of Eumetsat is according to our contract with our NMI / Eumetsat. Frequency of the images is different for each satellite, so we always show the latest frame depending on the time you choose on timeline. I admit that there is no information about the specific images acquisition timestamps. This could be improved. We are combining images from six satellites (Meteosat-8,10,11, Goes-16,17 and Himawari-8). In Europe we are showing images from Meteosat-10 with 5 minute frequency. Corrections: we are reprojecting images to Webmercator projection, but nothing more. We are also playing with correction to sun direction, but only the diffuse light so far. We are not able to handle specular reflections or scattered light from the sun near the horizont.

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                                gigi
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                                The new satellite and radar function is Great!
                                I would only suggest to add an option to have an UTC satellite image time,
                                as absolute time instead of a relative one like 3 min ago.
                                Really many thanks!

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                                • leo.idtL
                                  leo.idt @gigi | Premium
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                                  @gigi you're right. UTC satellite image time is very important. Mainly if you're using for serious application.

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                                    glvierra | Premium
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                                    Windy.com & the app continues to get better and better. Thanks for all the hard work from everyone on the Windy team!

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                                      TomSlavkovsky API developers | Premium
                                      last edited by TomSlavkovsky

                                      UPDATE: we have significantly decreased the time for between the image acquisition and appearing on Windy for GOES 16 & 17 (USA). The waiting time for the newest image was around 40 minutes; now it is only 10. The time shown on Windy is a time when the image acquisition started. The image acquisition takes approximately ten minutes, and the processing and sync between servers are another 15 minutes. Additionally, newly the GOES satellites have 10 minutes steps.

                                      For those who want to know how the satellite image is done, this is a great video:

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                                      • Cal_In_CarmelC
                                        Cal_In_Carmel
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                                        It is going to be a nice addition, once completed; can't wait.windy@endOfStream.png

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                                        • idefix37I
                                          idefix37 Sailor Moderator @Cal_In_Carmel
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                                          @Cal_In_Carmel
                                          That’s a bug

                                          https://community.windy.com/topic/9284/no-satellite-data-for-us

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                                          • Arc8ngelA
                                            Arc8ngel | Premium
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                                            Looks like the Satellite layer is broken?!

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