Hi Windy team and other Australian users.
Today I nearly fell off my chair after my jaw hit the desk.
The Windy team has added the ACCESS-G data into it's service!!
I'm so thrilled to have all the best forecast models rolled into one weather service website (the best weather provider by far).
:) :) :)
Well done Windy team for implementing the BoM data into Windy!!!
Happy forecasting to my fellow Aussies!
I'd vote for Japan Meteorological Agency's Global Spectrum Model (GSM). This is a global model with a resolution of 0.1875 degrees (approximately 20 km).
This way it benefits both Japanese locals and also global forecasters.
https://www.jma.go.jp/jma/en/Activities/nwp.html
Hi Windy team,
I'd like to say thank you for adding another global model the the Windy service!
Windy has been my go to for weather forecasting for years now and with the introduction of a new global model to help better compare weather events It has become even more powerful!!!!!!
Thank you for adding ICON for us to use in Australia!
Hopefully we'll see more global models added to windy soon (Fingers crossed)!
Hi Windy Team,
I've been looking into the possibility of adding weather data from the Australian BoM service into the Windy service and have come across these web pages from the BoM.
It does seem that a lot of data is free to use from the below links (which is great!).
FTP Public products:
http://www.bom.gov.au/catalogue/anon-ftp.shtml
and
http://www.bom.gov.au/catalogue/data-feeds.shtml
It also seems that Windy can use the data without any cost:
http://www.bom.gov.au/metadata/catalogue/license.shtml
BoM also seems to make the Himawari-8 satellite data free to use.
http://www.bom.gov.au/catalogue/data-feeds.shtml#satellite
I'm assuming this is how WillyWeather distributes its forecasting using BoM data:
https://www.willyweather.com.au/nsw/sydney/sydney.html
It would be AMAZING to have here in Australia the BoM forecast along side the ECMWF, GFS, ICON and Meteoblue forecasts.
This would help keep users from Australia within Windy :)
Thanks again to all your amazing team at Windy!!!!
@korina Thank you Korina, I love Windy and hope one day (soon hehe) to see the Australian Bureau of Meteorology weather forecast data in Windy. :)
I'm blown away with how much data is free to use!
I've just noticed some small design changes while using Windy but something that catch my eye was this 'Previous update' marker in the detail section.
Does this mean Windy is now showing the 6 hour intervals for ECMWF forecast for premium users?
@Tomber42 I would also like to see the FV3 being shown in the Clock info panel, something like (GFS - FV3) just to be more clear. :)
@Gkikas-LGPZ Hi Gkikas,
I'm not sure which Satellite service is Windy using to provide its images.
I'm hoping they'll use the Himawari-8 data and images as the quality is amazing (Please see our governments satellite service http://satview.bom.gov.au/).
Hi Windy Team,
I'm super excited that premium users have access to all 4 ECMWF run times.
A small UI suggestion I would add is to visual highlight which is the current run time (please see below) this would make it easier at a glance to see.
LOVE YOUR WORK WINDY TEAM!
Hi Windy team,
Another website I check for satellite imagery is https://zoom.earth/ because it has a few functions that Windy doesn't have (yet) haha
I know adding these functions into Windy would greatly help with weather forecasting and attract more users to stay within Windy for an over all experience.
Two functions that zoom.earth uses that I'd like to see Windy also add are:
1 - True colour global satellite imagery from the same sources that zoom.earth uses (NOAA GOES, JMA Himawari-8 & EUMETSAT Meteosat) that are updated every 10mins.
2 - HD satellite images produced twice daily from Suomi-NPP, and MODIS Aqua and Terra.
Hopefully we'll see these functions added into Windy in the near future?
Thank again Windy team :)
Hi Windy team,
Another website I check for satellite imagery is https://zoom.earth/ because it has a few functions that Windy doesn't have (yet) haha
I know adding these functions into Windy would greatly help with weather forecasting and attract more users to stay within Windy for an over all experience.
Two functions that zoom.earth uses that I'd like to see Windy also add are:
1 - True colour global satellite imagery from the same sources that zoom.earth uses (NOAA GOES, JMA Himawari-8 & EUMETSAT Meteosat) that are updated every 10mins.
2 - HD satellite images produced twice daily from Suomi-NPP, and MODIS Aqua and Terra.
Hopefully we'll see these functions added into Windy in the near future?
Thank again Windy team :)
Hi Windy team,
Just wondering when the next iOS Windy app update will occur?
I'm hoping that the new ACCESS forecast model will be implemented into the mobile app on the next update?
Thanks again Windy team! :)
@idefix37 Thank you, really appreciate your help :)
I've just change the 0mm & 0.5mm RGB codes back to the default grey.
The new colour codes really help the different mm amounts pop.
@idefix37 Yes please, I was hoping you would still have these color codes.
@idefix37 Would it be still possible to grab your colour code for the rain accumulation?
@vortexya Thank you Korina, would it be possible to ask the dev's to move the ACCESS bottom further up the list (Between GFS & ICON) for the Australian users?
@anthony10 I can see that the data on the backend might have some teething issues hehe.
Hi Windy team and other Australian users.
Today I nearly fell off my chair after my jaw hit the desk.
The Windy team has added the ACCESS-G data into it's service!!
I'm so thrilled to have all the best forecast models rolled into one weather service website (the best weather provider by far).
:) :) :)
Well done Windy team for implementing the BoM data into Windy!!!
Happy forecasting to my fellow Aussies!
Hi Windy Team,
I'm sure this question has been asked before BUT just in case it hasn't.
Will Windy be implementing the Satellite images into the 3D mode?
Google Earth does show a static satellite image but it would be great to see the animation on the Windy 3D mode.
Thanks team.
