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    • MsFrizzle726M Offline
      MsFrizzle726 | Premium
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      Site keeps getting better and better.

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      • meteoalfonsoM Offline
        meteoalfonso
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        Thanks for the new feature! What do you think to add watter vapour? Watter vapour is usefull to view what its going on our atmosfere in realtime. Its powerfull for stormchasers to do predictions in very short time.

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        • alejandropooliA Offline
          alejandropooli
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          Congratulations for this new great product. You should add a product for Low Clouds or FOG. Like the "GeoColor" RGB of http://rammb-slider.cira.colostate.edu/

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            stitch Meteorologist | Premium
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            @ivo

            With your satellite enhancements, is your team accessing these from Eumetsat?

            https://eumetview.eumetsat.int/static-images/MSGIODC/RGB/

            If so, at some stage down the track, would you consider including the "Ash - volcanic activity" and "Fog/Low cloud" enhancements the present satellite options?

            Thx

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            • gpobernardoG Offline
              gpobernardo
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              Nice addition! Now with worldwide radar, lightning strikes, and then satellite imagery, Windy is probably the most complete weather information provider available worldwide! Keep them coming!

              Now that I recall, for iOS, it would be nice to have the option to also display (in a separate widget) any of the current weather map layers from the Windy app. Would love to see the latest radar image in a widget, or even IR+!

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                You guys at Windy are top notch, this program just keeps getting better all the time. As a long time Skywarn weather watcher this is my goto weather web site. Thanks for all the hard work and the best site on the net period!
                Mark in Moab Utah...

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                • jmdsJ Offline
                  jmds
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                  Excellent idea.Please let me know when it is available.

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                  • OrecaO Offline
                    Oreca
                    last edited by

                    Very nice and useful add on.

                    D.K.

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                    • DAVEMatthewsD Offline
                      DAVEMatthews
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                      EXCELLENT works well on Mac Book Pro. Keep up the great work. Thanks, Dave Matthews, PhD

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                        mgeigert
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                        I am impressed that you actually installed your own dish. I am very interested in smoke plumes but your current visible image does not display it like the web site that I currently use.July-15,-2019-Satellite.png

                        Any chance of adding this type of visible display?
                        Michael from CT DEEP

                        Michael Geigert

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                          Love it! I'm a weather nerd and honestly, you guys have the best app out there.

                          What do the brownish tones stand for? Dry air? There is a lot of smoke coming from the Canadien Wild Fires.

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                            HomoTelepathicus
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                            Huge thanks to the Windy Team for such a totally awesome site. Do not stop what you are doing. Youre doing it right. Cant wait to see the satellite layer. Been using this site for over 2 years now. Wouldn't use anything else.

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                              Ivanovskiy
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                              The nephogram is good, but I need more borders, such as province, counties...

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                                Gkikas LGPZ Moderator Meteorologist @Ivanovskiy
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                                @Ivanovskiy
                                Have you tried to zoom-in?

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                                  Gkikas LGPZ Moderator Meteorologist @MDason
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                                  @MDason
                                  Try skewT plugin
                                  https://community.windy.com/topic/7541/windy-plugin-skewt-now-running-with-ecmwf-data/7

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                                    TZ Windy Staff @bdiddydog1
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                                    @bdiddydog1 Hi! I hope we both are talking about satellite layer :-) The yellow colour is for low clouds/fog while white/blue colours are for high clouds. It is handy to distinguish between these two layers. You can often see how these layers move separately at different speed and in different direction. Also you can observe evolution of the storms (from cumulus to cumulonimbus)

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                                      @TZ
                                      I understood this difference in color based on clouds altitude, but could we know at which altitude the color changes?
                                      https://community.windy.com/topic/8820/windy-launches-satellite-layer/62

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                                        vernonro
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                                        Great tool. Used this to warn wildland firefighters of incoming cold front with thunderstorms yesterday in northern Ontario, CA. Our location is outside of radar so also used it to advise division supervisors when it was going to be clear enough for them to get out with the helicopters and check on the fire crews.
                                        Thank you
                                        Ontario Fire Behaviour Analyst

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                                          TZ Windy Staff @idefix37
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                                          @idefix37 Unfortunately not, the color is based on temperature. So from this imagery it is not possible to determine clouds altitude. Also it is not possible to distinguish between snow and low clouds. It could be possible with some cloud mask products. To sum it up: this is challenge for future ;-)

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                                            idefix37 Sailor Moderator @TZ
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                                            @TZ
                                            Thank you for your answer.

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