Dear Windy Development Team,

Could you please add dynamic water vapor satellite loops (6.2 µm–7.3 µm channels) to your global satellite layer selection?

Integrating animated water vapor imagery would bridge a critical gap in Windy's upper-air diagnostics. It allows users to visualize synoptic-scale features that standard visible and infrared channels miss.

Here are 5 advantages this feature would bring to the user experience for global weather monitoring:

Enhances Jet Stream Analysis: Visualizes potential vorticity anomalies, tropopause folds, and jet streak dynamics.

Maps Mid-Level Moisture Dynamics: Tracks atmospheric rivers, dry air intrusions, and pre-convective environments before cloud formation.

Improves Cyclogenesis Forecasting: Displays mid-to-upper tropospheric swirling and deformation zones driving storm development.

Aids Convective Initiation Tracking: Pinpoints upper-level divergence and shortwave troughs that trigger severe thunderstorms.

Optimizes Aviation Flight Planning: Identifies regions of clear-air turbulence (CAT) and high-altitude mountain wave activity.

Thank you for your continuous innovation in meteorological visualization.

AJ

Hi Developers,

Please note that the GFS has been showing for the last several runs now a medicane developing in the Western Mediterranean. However, equivalent GFS runs on WindyTv do not depict the proper isobaric arrangement and minimum sea-level pressure, which should be significantly lower, as the GFS model shows elsewhere.

Please view the image from WXChart and the equivalent image from Windy.

Please fix this issue ASAP, because your maps do not depict Medicanes properly and underestimate the potential for severe weather conditions that are associated with such spectacular and elusive systems...

THANKS!
AJ


Hi,

I just completed all the Hebrew translations.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks,
Aviram Jacobovich

I meant combining only prognostic data! The forecast animations also display convective indices which outline areas of possible convective development and lightning! Thanks

@Suty - I did! It fixed the issue. Thanks!

Dear Windy Development Team,

I am writing to follow up on feedback I submitted over a month ago regarding the current precipitation overlay on the Clouds layer.

I am disappointed with how the precipitation layer is currently presented when combined with clouds. The rendering appears pixelated and is not user-friendly. Instead of advancing the graphical quality of your meteorological data, this specific implementation is difficult to look at and hinders the practical monitoring of precipitation clusters and storm systems.

To resolve this, could you please add a dedicated option to superimpose the standard "Rain, thunder" layer directly over the "Clouds" layer? Ideally, users should be able to display both layers simultaneously, with an independent opacity slider for the "Rain, thunder" layer. This would allow users to customize the blend and create an optimal, smooth animation for the Cloud-Precip model combo.

Thank you for your time and continuous work on the platform. I look forward to seeing improvements in future updates.

Best regards,
AJ

Dear Windy Development Team,

Could you please add dynamic water vapor satellite loops (6.2 µm–7.3 µm channels) to your global satellite layer selection?

Integrating animated water vapor imagery would bridge a critical gap in Windy's upper-air diagnostics. It allows users to visualize synoptic-scale features that standard visible and infrared channels miss.

Here are 5 advantages this feature would bring to the user experience for global weather monitoring:

Enhances Jet Stream Analysis: Visualizes potential vorticity anomalies, tropopause folds, and jet streak dynamics.

Maps Mid-Level Moisture Dynamics: Tracks atmospheric rivers, dry air intrusions, and pre-convective environments before cloud formation.

Improves Cyclogenesis Forecasting: Displays mid-to-upper tropospheric swirling and deformation zones driving storm development.

Aids Convective Initiation Tracking: Pinpoints upper-level divergence and shortwave troughs that trigger severe thunderstorms.

Optimizes Aviation Flight Planning: Identifies regions of clear-air turbulence (CAT) and high-altitude mountain wave activity.

Thank you for your continuous innovation in meteorological visualization.

AJ

When I attempt to customize the Clouds layer, the settings menu only displays customization options for the Precipitation overlay. I’m using an IPhone.

@christoph.almond
Yes, the cloud layer settings are no longer available

Dear Windy Development Team,

I am writing to follow up on feedback I submitted over a month ago regarding the current precipitation overlay on the Clouds layer.

I am disappointed with how the precipitation layer is currently presented when combined with clouds. The rendering appears pixelated and is not user-friendly. Instead of advancing the graphical quality of your meteorological data, this specific implementation is difficult to look at and hinders the practical monitoring of precipitation clusters and storm systems.

To resolve this, could you please add a dedicated option to superimpose the standard "Rain, thunder" layer directly over the "Clouds" layer? Ideally, users should be able to display both layers simultaneously, with an independent opacity slider for the "Rain, thunder" layer. This would allow users to customize the blend and create an optimal, smooth animation for the Cloud-Precip model combo.

Thank you for your time and continuous work on the platform. I look forward to seeing improvements in future updates.

Best regards,
AJ

@idefix37
Thank you for bringing to my attention the option in the settings to deselect that “hail” option on the radar layer.

Please refer to my previous feedback regarding visualization of model precipitation overlay on cloud cover layer.

Much appreciated

Hi Windy Team,

I’d like to suggest some improvements to the current radar layer regarding hail representation.

The Problem:
The black "hail dots" currently feel exaggerated and are often misleading. They frequently indicate hail in areas where high freezing levels (especially in the tropics or during summer) mean the hail melts before reaching the ground.

Suggested Improvements:
Toggle Option: Please provide an option to deselect or hide the black hail dots on the radar layer.

Refined dBZ Color Coding:
Instead of dots, use distinctive colors for high reflectivity ranges to better align with meteorological standards:
50–55 dBZ: Small hail/heavy rain mix.
60–65 dBZ: Likely hail/extremely heavy rain.
70+ dBZ: High certainty of large/giant hail.

Again, these values only indicate hail presence in the cloud but not necessarily hitting the ground!

Better Algorithm:
To more accurately predict hail reaching the ground, I suggest overlapping reflectivity data with radar vertical wind velocities.

User Guidance:
It would be very helpful to provide simple in-app guidance explaining how to delineate areas of hail formation versus the actual risk of ground impact.

The goal is to move away from an "all or nothing" dot display and toward a more nuanced, data-driven visualization.

Thanks for considering this for the sake of providing more accuracy rather than just adding more unnecessary clutter on your maps.

Sincerely,
AJ

Dear Windy Team,

I am writing to provide feedback regarding a significant decline in the visual quality and usability of the Precipitation layer when viewed over the Cloud Cover layer.

The current rendering of precipitation as granular, dotted, and cross-hatched patterns is a major "eye-sore" and is not viewer-friendly. These textures make it extremely difficult to view and interpret weather patterns, especially when running model animations that capture both cloud coverage and precipitation simultaneously.

Specifically, I would like to request the following improvements:

Smoothed Textures: Please provide a smoothed-out precipitation layer that overlaps with the cloud cover, similar to the smooth texture scheme currently used on the Rain, Thunder layer option.

Satellite/Radar Resemblance: Prognostic data should more closely resemble actual satellite and radar images rather than the current pixelated, blocky patterns, for the sake of consistency and continuity.

Improved Clarity: The current "granular" rendering makes fine-scale structures like intensity gradients and frontal boundaries much harder to interpret during animations.

As a user who relies on these animations to track developing weather systems, the recent shift toward these coarse patterns feels like a step backward in UI/UX quality. Returning to a higher-resolution, smoother interpolation method would significantly restore the clarity Windy is known for.

Thank you for your time and for the ongoing work you do to provide such a powerful weather tool. I look forward to seeing these visual refinements in a future update.

Sincerely,
AJ

@Suty - I did! It fixed the issue. Thanks!

It's shows the same also on a Dell Laptop, Google Chrome