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    • RE: Windy launches Route Planner

      I think most of this has been said but just to reiterate, from a sailing perspective there is little point having the forecast along the entire route for one moment in time as clearly, for a journey of any length, the situation will have changed substantially by the time the boat (moving at 6-7kts) has got there! So it would be really nice if 'boat mode' by default showed the predictions along the route given a specific boat speed.

      That said, I have now got the hang of the fact that the weekdays along the top of the table do not relate to the weather beneath (this was very confusing) and I can make predictions by shifting the bar around. It's a bit cumbersome, but nonetheless worthwhile and helping me guide my friends across the Indian Ocean.

      The last request is that the routes be save-able! (if they are already I have not seen how?). It is a pain to have to keep re-entering multiple waypoints everytime I come back to the app!

      Thanks for everything, this is the most brilliant weather program in existance!

      posted in Announcements
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      afurley
    • RE: Windy launches Route Planner

      @marekd Aha, just saw that you are going to 'add the option of speed of movement'! This would be very helpful. I thought I might be missing something because I could not find anywhere the option to set the Boat Speed, which is essential. At the moment it seems to be a very slow boat, covering 170nm in a couple of days? I am working with a yacht that is doing 7kn across the Indian Ocean and I have to work the distances travelled manually at the moment. Would really welcome the ability to specify the boat speed. Thanks for all your brilliant hard work.

      posted in Announcements
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      afurley
    • RE: Hi, how can I download the forecast info in my mac. And used while at sea ( no connection)?

      This is a great question. I am currently summarizing WindyTY forecasts for a fellow sailor who is in the South Pacific by satellite email. He has only sporadic internet connection, so being able to dump WindyTY data into a offline app would be fantastic.

      posted in General Discussion
      afurleyA
      afurley
    • Community advice on personal weather stations

      Re: What weather stations do you recommend.?
      Appreciate that Windy May not want to recommend specific personal weather stations, but would be interested in opinions from the community. Would like to set up a personal weather station that could input to Windy, as there are few near me. Would like something that will allow me to download data and that can take particularly temp readings from several locations around my property. Thanks

      posted in Windy Stations weather station actual data
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      afurley
    • RE: Route Planner for iPad

      @petra-pik I only just discovered the route planner and it’s brilliant. I am offshore sailor (due to the pandemic I have not been offshore for a year, which is why I only just discovered the route planner) and this is invaluable (I had been asking for it for a while). But to have it work on the iPad app would be even better as the IPad is the absolutely standard interface on many sailing boats (Navionics Boating app, for example, is the standard app for navigation). But anyway, thanks to all involved.

      posted in Your Feedback and Suggestions
      afurleyA
      afurley
    • RE: Default settings

      @korina Not a Premium user but I have been a user since the ‘early days’ and have asked for this before. I concur that the other models are better depending on location and in general, I’m afraid (I’m a European too!), the GFS model, though less precise, is more accurate.The other ‘setting’ which does not appear to be a setting are the pressure isolines, which revert to ‘off’ every time I leave the website, a real pain. But keep up the good work, I love Windy!

      posted in Your Feedback and Suggestions
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      afurley
    • RE: Please add weather fronts (Warmfront and cold front)!!!

      @Ondřej-Šutera as a sailor, I would absolutely second including weather fronts. I know they are created by meteorologists, but evidently there are algorithms that can mimic this. This would be an important and persuasive addition. While you are at it, PLEASE allow me to keep the pressure isolines on the map by default. I don't understand why this is not stored in my settings. Thanks

      posted in Your Feedback and Suggestions
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      afurley
    • RE: Snow flakes on radar

      @Pkrash and most others in the thread. Wanting to know the precipitation type is not a " FAIL" even if this implementation doesn't look great. This has been done well by other sites (eg Netweather.tv/live-weather/radar - turn Weather On) where different colours are used to indicate precipitation type and colour intensity used to indicate amount of ppt. Windy should consider something like this

      posted in Your Feedback and Suggestions
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      afurley