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 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'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)!

@mark-ingalls Also, I'd like to see Water Vapour added to the Satellite layer.

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!!!!

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,

I love the new improvements to the 'Compare panel' (1hr toggle & highlighted time vertically).

Another suggestion to improve the 'Compare panel' would be to lock the left hand side info panel so that when a user scrolls along the timeline on a small screen they still know which information correspondence to each row.

Thanks again Windy team :)

@Korina The main overlay a lot of users would like to have is Satellite & Radar please.

Another layer which would benefit users is Satellite & Rain overlay so that forecasters can confirm if Models are aligning with weather events.

Thanks @Korina :)

@anthony10 Alongside with an Ice/Flood/Fire satellite layer, I believe a Water Vapour layer would be very helpful for users & meteorologists.

@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!

@Gkikas-LGPZ It's just an example similar to your post earlier :)

https://community.windy.com/post/216733

I do agree that the resolution isn't great, but I believe a lot of people would rather something than nothing.

@anthony10

@anthony10 I'm still hoping the Windy dev's are cooking up a Hail Prediction/forecast layer.

Maybe along the lines of (SHIP) Significant Hail Parameter.
https://www.spc.noaa.gov/exper/mesoanalysis/help/help_sigh.html

@Suty another concept option would be to keep the small icons in the detail panel with the model names beside them.

@idefix37 I do agree with that option. It would be great to have the model names locked to the side.

@idefix37 It's a shame Windy lost the SST anomaly layer.

I'd love to see the Sea Temperature forecast get extended out to a few days using ECMWF link text and NOAA data.

I know Ventusky & Meteoblue has this feature.

@Korina Hi Korina, just wondering if the Windy team are still considering adding UKMO-10 Met Office Global forecast still?

@Suty Hey Suty, just curious on whether the locked side panel might make a return to mobile in the next update?

@anthony10 I'd like to see more Layers added to the Alerts section of Windy and in particular the CAPE index with the ability to choose J/kg rates.

Hi all,

It looks like a competitor in the weather forecast space has brought out a version of hail probability forecast.

I don't know how accurate this forecast is from Ventusky but I do know that Windy users have been asking for a similar forecast for many years now.

Let's hope that as AI progresses it also helps with weather forecasting.

Article
Ventusky Uses AI to Predict Hail Probability Worldwide
https://my.ventusky.com/guide/news/ventusky-uses-ai-to-predict-hail-probability-worldwide-44/

And here is the layer - https://www.ventusky.com/?l=hail-probability