Hi Windy team,

I've been reading through the past comments in regards to using the Australian BOM radar data.

I can see that Windy is using the radar data from somewhere which is great but can i suggest an additional feature.

It seems that Windy is using the larger National image data which makes the rain radar look like bigger blocks/blobs (please see attach).

Could there be an automatic function when zooming closer to an area that the radar image switches to the clearer radar image? (please see attach).

Please let me know if I'm total wrong about what I'm seeing through the Windy website.

Keep up the great service Windy team :)

Hi Windy team,

I am just wondering if Windy uses ECMWF Rapid with the standard ECMWF forecasting?

Or does Windy only use ECMWF and GFS models?

If so, is it possible to add ECMWF Rapid to work with the standard ECMWF so that we are given more frequent forecast models (I believe it's 4 times a day and 72 hours ahead).

PS I love Windy!

@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/).

@TomSlavkovsky Hi Tom,
Thank you for replying to my question.
I'm glad to hear that you'll be using the Himawari-8 data as it's an amazing Satellite for our region of sky.
So does this mean you'll be using the Himawari-8 images and other services for our region in the near future?
Kind of like how http://satview.bom.gov.au/ using it currently?
Keep in mind that the Himawari-8 takes images every 10 minutes.

Thanks again Tom :)

Hi Windy team,

As a user of your amazing and ongoing growing service, I'd like to suggest a few new items for the Australian and Southern Hemisphere region surrounding our country.

Currently I use a few different weather services for our region - BoM (bureau of meteorology), Meteye, BoM Satellite and Windy. (sometimes Weatherzone)

http://www.bom.gov.au/australia/meteye/?ref=ftr
http://satview.bom.gov.au/

Suggestion 1:
Could Windy use and utilize Australians bureau of meteorology data called ACCESS (Australian Community Climate and Earth-System Simulator) and also ADFD (Australian Digital Forecast Database) for more accurate forecasting of this region?

http://www.bom.gov.au/australia/charts/about/about_access.shtml

http://www.bom.gov.au/weather-services/about/forecasts/australian-digital-forecast-database.shtml

Would it be possible to have another button in the 'Model Forecasting' on the bottom right tab next to ECMWF and GFS or combine the ACCESS data into the ECMWF?

Weatherzome Pro is another amazing visual service (combining BoM and Himawari-8 Imagery into beautiful models) but it's a monthly payed service which I would only use once or twice a week.

Suggestion 2:
It's amazing to see that Windy as added a Global Satellite imagery services. For our region we are lucky to have the Himawari-8 Satellite images being used with our BoM services. Would it be possible to also use the Himawari-8 images into Windy for our region of sky?

Thanks again Windy team for this INCREDIBLE weather service!

I'll be happy to help answer more question in regards to my suggestions.