@meeshcoles

The first thing that comes to mind is: who's forecast is the most accurate?
I use the free version and the default model is wrong about half the time. If it's that bad for the free version, I don't see a reason to get premium even if it unlocks a lot of handy features.

I had problems with widgets not displaying anything. I resolved this by setting location in the windy widgets app (not the windy app itself!) to always. My phone is a Samsung S22 ultra. Now I can even use a different weather model instead of the useless ECMWF when I tap the widget to open windy. Win-win! 💪

@idefix37
I use the very accurate radar image animation to see where clouds are going in the near term and make predictions myself.

The other much faster and convenient way is to just look at the 3 hour and daily predictions but that is the problem.

The hourly and daily predictions on the standard model shown in the app are not accurate enough more then 50% of the time but maybe the other models are. Sometimes you can see no sun possible for hours but the predictions still list full sunshine.

At least the AROME one seems to predict near term weather better. ECMWF finally changed but it took more then 2 days to even show the current weather.

Apart from these inaccuracies, windy is still the best weather app 👍

@idefix37
I use the very accurate radar image animation to see where clouds are going in the near term and make predictions myself.

The other much faster and convenient way is to just look at the 3 hour and daily predictions but that is the problem.

The hourly and daily predictions on the standard model shown in the app are not accurate enough more then 50% of the time but maybe the other models are. Sometimes you can see no sun possible for hours but the predictions still list full sunshine.

At least the AROME one seems to predict near term weather better. ECMWF finally changed but it took more then 2 days to even show the current weather.

Apart from these inaccuracies, windy is still the best weather app 👍

@idefix37
It's indeed the AROME model. Nice to see those higher resolution maps. The standard radar images mostly pick up low clouds or mist but it's the forecast accuracy that is more useful to me. The forecasts are all over the place when I compare different models. As I fixed the widget problem on my phone, an added bonus is the widget allows setting a different model. I'm going to test until I find a model that has good accuracy.

I had problems with widgets not displaying anything. I resolved this by setting location in the windy widgets app (not the windy app itself!) to always. My phone is a Samsung S22 ultra. Now I can even use a different weather model instead of the useless ECMWF when I tap the widget to open windy. Win-win! 💪

@idefix37

My most recent example is the default ECMWF model forecast from the last 2 days. It predicted 2 full days of sun and no clouds. Reality was 2 full days of mist and cloud, not even 1 hour of sun. The forecast wasn't updated during these days as it kept it's original.
When I change to another model like AMORE, it was far more accurate but the free version always defaults to the ECMWF model.
The only other decent free weather app is wetteronline but that one uses the same inferior ECMWF model, even the paid version.
I would pay for accuracy so I don't have to look at radar data to guess future cloud cover all the time.

@meeshcoles

The first thing that comes to mind is: who's forecast is the most accurate?
I use the free version and the default model is wrong about half the time. If it's that bad for the free version, I don't see a reason to get premium even if it unlocks a lot of handy features.