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!

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

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!!!!

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,

Are there any plans in the short term to add the UKMO global forecast model to the Windy platform?

The UKMO global resolution could be better here:
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/approach/modelling-systems/unified-model/weather-forecasting

Here is the portal for the data:
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/services/data

Another global model would help make Windy more attractive.

Windy is the best platform for weather information because of its great UI layout!

Thanks again 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 Any updates on adding a True Colour satellite imagery to Windy like Ventusky and others?

I even like the wind animation they've added on top of the imagery.

And here is a discussion on New Scientist podcast.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXYt-Z1kQEc/?igsh=M2Vxb2VoanVxMGV4

https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/a-super-el-niño-is-coming-and-it-could/id1496847791?i=1000762372116

This amazing youtuber helps explain how the sea temperature changes around Australian potentially impacts rainfall.

I can see he is using https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/analysis/ocean/

Maybe Windy dev's might add some form of Sea Temperature forecast / long range forcasting in the future?

@idefix37 good spotting, is this correct @gkikas-lgpz?
Hail forecasting has been something a lot of users have requested for a long time.

@Gkikas-LGPZ Thanks as always. :)

@idefix37 Ha! :P

Could someone please show me an example of:

• Perception type is included in the Weather Radar layer.

Not sure if I'm misunderstanding this feature?

@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