@Suty Thanks!

Seeing that you have connections in the highest places, you may want to consider this: The search box where you enter your forecast location gives a list of cached locations. This list contains two 'ingredients':

1. My favorites
2. Locations I once used

[1] contains the names as I've called them initially, but I have renamed most of them. So what I called 'Beach' I later renamed to 'Marina de Rossano'. It is annotatied correctly on the map, but it's still as 'Beach' in the cached list.
[2] contains stuff that I once clicked on, out of curiosity. These locations follow me forever. I want to get rid of them.

The easy way out: allow a 'clear' of the cache of this list. After clearing, add all the favorites. It fixes both problems in one go.

No, I do not want to clear all of the cache; that would involve re-setting all color tables and other stuff that I want to keep as-is. It's just that the list of search items is pretty annoyingly not what I want.

@Koss5 "Windy should fire ..." This is a bit harsh, but I can see a general issue here: It looks like the UI designers are operating the code as if it is visiting a toy shop: "Oh I like this one", "No look at this, even better".

You can do that in early stages of development, but people are now using the product at a large scale. You cannot just change the UX every few days, or move functionality around all the time - it pisses people off. Look at Debian: One big update every 2 years. In between, mostly bug fixes, polishing, etc.

Of course you can still do stuff. But you've got to be a bit more cautious. This was one of those 'not so well thought out' things. It has a serious impact on UX. It may look slick, but it's all about how it's actually used.

The rain map is not very predictive: it shows how much rain fell on a location in the past 3 hours. Interesting, but not much of a help if you want to plan walking the dogs.

The rain radar is a special radar that registers echos from (lots of) raindrops and thus can monitor where rain is in real time. If you look at that picture, and how it moves - well - that does allow you to make some reasonable predictions on when there will be a time window without rain.

In flat countries rain radar is really very useful and accurate; in mountaneous areas the radar, which is usually positioned on a mountain top, cannot 'see' everything, which makes it a bit less reliable there. This is why commercial weather services often fake 'rain radar' with satellite 'estimates'. Not as accurate as direct radar measurements, but mas que nada in any case.

@Ortlepp-Enrico Why would I look at a tiny screen with horrible controls when I can see everything on my 4k2k beautiful large computer monitor? I've had enough of staring at small screens and torturing my hands with idiotically small controls. And tablets ... does anyone still use them? Mine must be collecting dust on a shelf somewhere. I guess that would be the core of the answer to your question ...

@idefix37 Oh wow, my bad. It still doesn't really give you the information you need, but it could sure help.

The rain map is not very predictive: it shows how much rain fell on a location in the past 3 hours. Interesting, but not much of a help if you want to plan walking the dogs.

The rain radar is a special radar that registers echos from (lots of) raindrops and thus can monitor where rain is in real time. If you look at that picture, and how it moves - well - that does allow you to make some reasonable predictions on when there will be a time window without rain.

In flat countries rain radar is really very useful and accurate; in mountaneous areas the radar, which is usually positioned on a mountain top, cannot 'see' everything, which makes it a bit less reliable there. This is why commercial weather services often fake 'rain radar' with satellite 'estimates'. Not as accurate as direct radar measurements, but mas que nada in any case.

@Ortlepp-Enrico Why would I look at a tiny screen with horrible controls when I can see everything on my 4k2k beautiful large computer monitor? I've had enough of staring at small screens and torturing my hands with idiotically small controls. And tablets ... does anyone still use them? Mine must be collecting dust on a shelf somewhere. I guess that would be the core of the answer to your question ...

Yes! There is is! ... Must say it illustrates the point we are making in another thread ... things are moving around at breakneck speed ... Anyway, that's a relief.

@Suty I don't have that. The switch is missing.

@BertBril Lumo gives a lot of info on how to implement it. Not sure how to pass it to you, but it includes a table like screenshot .
There's also stuff on combining with existing radar, and really much more. I'm sure if you ask your own AI targeted questions, it will come up with much more specific stuff ...

@idefix37 The solution may be to not use the radars in areas where these are not present (currently all of South Italy) or simply untrustworthy.

I am not an expert on thsis matter, but this is what Lumo says:

Q: "Is there an alterntive to a dedicated rain radar by using satellite data - for areas that have no rain radar coverage?"

A: "Short answer: Yes – you can estimate precipitation from satellites, and in many parts of the world those satellite‑derived products are the primary source of near‑real‑time rain information when ground‑based radars are absent. The trade‑off is that satellite estimates are less precise, coarser, and have a larger latency than a dedicated weather‑radar network, but modern multi‑sensor algorithms (microwave, infrared, passive‑microwave, and blended gauge‑radar‑satellite products) can still give you useful quantitative rainfall fields."

@Koss5 "Windy should fire ..." This is a bit harsh, but I can see a general issue here: It looks like the UI designers are operating the code as if it is visiting a toy shop: "Oh I like this one", "No look at this, even better".

You can do that in early stages of development, but people are now using the product at a large scale. You cannot just change the UX every few days, or move functionality around all the time - it pisses people off. Look at Debian: One big update every 2 years. In between, mostly bug fixes, polishing, etc.

Of course you can still do stuff. But you've got to be a bit more cautious. This was one of those 'not so well thought out' things. It has a serious impact on UX. It may look slick, but it's all about how it's actually used.

@David-Polášek I understand what you're saying, but I think you didn't get what I'm saying. The rain radar is not a very good tool in mountaneous areas. The rain radar, even though usually positioned on a peak, can 'see' the ground level rarely. In my case, even while I live on a crest, it still misses a column of about 600 meters. This means it is pretty bad in many cases.

Looking from above this problem would be ... well ... different. But I bet it's going to give a better view of what is coming towards me.

As @YacineBoussoufa says. I can even correct what I said in my own threead: I think now even Weatheronline no longer has data for Calabria. It's raining hard outside here in Rossano, but weatheronline shows not a spot of rain anywhere in Calabria. I guess Calabria is simply too remote :)