Posts made by AlanTheBeast

The automatic renewal notice comes out 5 days before the end of a subscription. This seems designed to trap people into an automatic renewal.
Such notices should be at least 15 days - more like 30 days before an automatic charge to someone's credit card.

I would like to be able to "tag" a leading edge of a radar (rain/snow) and have:

Speed
Direction of travel (degrees true)

I would like the radar image to be "propagated" for up to 3 or 4 hours forward.
(1st order should be easy; 2nd order feasible).

Please add user location markers and a range/direction cursor.

ie: the user (in his settings) sets a location (L/L) to have a mark on the map.

An option is to have notation beside the cursor with range and direction (to or from) the selected marker.

Can't find account period end info.
Can't find renewal price.
Can't find if it is automatic.

Thanks.

@tjab48313
The strobes are a radar artifact. Canada recently upgraded all of its radars, and these artifacts came along with them. Horrendous. (I suspect the range of the new radars isn't as good as the old ones either).
See my other reply to Korina as well regarding products that have the strobes and not.

@korina
What is strange is that the "public" facing weather page (the second image above) is from the service that owns the radars. So they seem to be cleaning up the strobes before putting out their map.
I don't know how you get the radar data from them, but perhaps contact the Minister of the Environment to ask if the "cleaned up" product is available?

@korina
I'm not planning a route. Simply making a measurement of distance. Nothing more.

@wedda

I just went to https://24timezones.com/timezone-map to complain that they don't have the weather on their site. The fiends!

@korina
When I right click, I get "distance and planning" - doesn't mean I'm planning: I'm measuring. (And the map is indeed in the ECMWF model).

So, please consider refining this, and/or having a separate measurement widget that is independent of planning routes.

For bonus points, it would be nice to have:

• Raw radar - no interpolation.

• Tracking to estimate the time of arrival of precipitation at a point on the map.

Thanks!

In Windy, the Canadian Wx Radar image shows range strobes (spokes) - often even when there is little precip around.
The source for these radar images, at the same time, does NOT show the range strobes. (2nd image attached).

Can they be suppressed?

Note that, concurrent to the above, the avitation radar product from NAVCANADA also shows the range strobes.

So, while I am in (start in) ECMWF model, then go to the radar view I get a popup:

This is annoying, can still measure distance - so workable.

(I measure the rate of advance of storms to see when the rain will start and end).

@alanthebeast

Thks, but the question is "ending at that time" ie: in the image above is the 9 cm the accumulation between 07:00 and 10:00. Thx

Strange that Sudbury isn't on there.

In the meantime, just use Environment Canada's site. The new presentation has a lot of sucky elements (ie: not north aligned except in the middle longitude of Canada. Make's St-John's esp whacky looking...). But does have transparency settings for the radar image. Also shows US radar down as far as Puerto Rico, but the map is missing south of Ohio latitudes.

(The iPhone app Env. Canada is correctly north up).

https://weather.gc.ca/map_e.html?layers=radar&province=QC&zoom=6¢er=46.17544546%2C-78.92156968

As to Windy, I've requested they add an option to present the weather radar 'raw' (as Environment Canada do), but that's been ignored. The current algorithm often drops the last image or has strange artifacts.

Beast
Montreal.
Edit: clarification.

Is the accumulation amount for the 3 hours ending at that time. ie: at 10:00, 9 cm is forecast to fall between 7:00 and 10:00?

Thanks.

PS: Finally occurred to me why the hours seem wonky until I factor in our time zone... (-5 UTC) as the 3 hour chunks are UTC 0:00 based.

Edit : clarified.

I've mentioned this bug before. The radar display often loses all the returns for the last frame. I suspect this is due to the smoothing algorithm (or animation).
Frankly: I'd rather you just put the "return" point as delivered (intensity at that location) from the source and not attempt the smoothing/animation.

And PUUUULEEEAZE! Turn off the default sound and lightning.

What is showing:

Frame "just before"

What Env Canada is showing at same time as image at top.

I get this when I turn on the weather radar display sometimes, or at the end of a real time "play".

Should look more like:

Frankly, I'd prefer the raw Environment Canada data overlaid, such as:

And, please turn off lightning and sound as defaults!

Thanks, but a bit shy of what I'm looking for. Cheers.

7 days isn't "historical" so much as "recent". After some weather events I'd like to see conditions leading up to them. 7 days doesn't seem like too much to add.

What would it take to have the last 7 days of weather data available in Windy? Is it a question of server space and/or processing?

Thx!4321