It depends on what information you want. For the average "guy off the street" I don't think Windy is the particularly easy to use. They just want to see:

• What the current temperature is
• What the predicted high and low temperature is
• Whether and when it is going to rain or snow today

Windy makes that somewhat hard to find. As I posted in a thread yesterday, you have to drill down a bit to find this.

However, for a weather enthusiast, Windy is quite easy to use to use. I find the interface fantastic for digging into what is going to be happening.

I realize there is supposed to be a popup in the upper left that shows a quick 3 day forecast, but I find it doesn't always display for me despite having that option checked. The Quick Forecast also only shows highs whether it will rain sometime that day. That is not quite enough information in my opinion. By clicking it you get the more detailed display, but that is probably more than most people want.

Not every site is going to be all things to all people. The Windy developers have obviously focused more on the "enthusiasts". That is a fine decision but I suspect it means that the bulk of the population will not choose Windy as their "go to " weather site.

You can also just click or tap anywhere on the map and an onscreen indicator is displayed showing the parameter value at that location.

Windy is an amazing web app. However, I wish it were easier to see the current reported temperatures (and other conditions) and nearby weather stations. Right now there seem to be two options.

1. Display the forecast for your location by clicking the down arrow in the weather picker. Then you must scroll the forecast to the right to see the nearby weather stations. Most of them are unnamed, so it is not clear which one I want to choose.

2. Alternatively I can choose the "Reported temperature" layer and then zoom in multiple times to see the various station near me. That will let me see the temp, but to see the details, I need to click the actual station to display the details panel at the bottom.

Given that lots of folks care about the current weather (in addition to the forecasted weather), I think it would be nice to have an option to quickly display the details of the stations around me.

Perhaps you can designate a single station as you location's station and its current conditions easily.

Am I missing something?

Do you see a small “particles animation” switch in the bottom right of the chart? That needs to be turned on.

Yes, I have looked at the cloud layers. At 9 PM, it is showing 35% high clouds and 23% medium clouds. That was why I was surprised to not see them in the meteogram.

Tom,

Thanks for the response. I realize Windy is not your typical weather site, but one common use of weather sites must be to see the current conditions before heading out the door. I will watch for further development along these lines.

Two people have previously reported this issue with iOS 10.3.4. What version of iOS are you running?

Thanks, I just read though the other reports of it.

If this is not a bug, it is at least a suboptimal design. Surely you would not want this to happen if it could be avoided. I never know what the actual value is and thus cannot fully trust the map reading other than to give a sort of estimate.

It does sound like it is due to some sort of averaging over an area. I guess the point value for that location is not readily available.

I will also say in Windy's defense that in practice it probably doesn't make any difference. Surely the error bars on most of the forecasted values are as large or larger than the variability while zooming. It just offends my engineering sense of precision.

The satellite layer is much appreciated.

There is probably nothing you can do about it, and it is probably in the source data coming from EUMETSAT, but there is an annoying discontinuity running through the central US.

It kind of degrades the beautiful image. If there is anything that can be done about it I'd appreciate you looking at it at some point.

@kiwiandy, check to make sure you still have “forecasted weather” selected on the “layers” selector in the bottom right corner.

You can zoom in on your preferred location, set the map layer,etc. Then make a bookmark of that view. This will encode the precise settings you have set.

I did find that on the iPad, it doesn’t capture all the encoded setting by just making a bookmark. I needed to copy the URL and then set that as the bookmark target.

@idefix37 Thanks for the response. It is not a problem for me but I just thought I'd check to make sure this was intended.

I just noticed that the wind particle animation when viewing the Aerosol layer looks different than on other layers. However, if I go to the Wind layer and adjust the height to be 500 hPa, then the particle animation closely matches that of the Aerosol layer.

Is this a bug or does the Aerosol layer purposely display the wind at a higher level?

@vicb I agree that on the Mac, the 3D mode with particle animation is too slow (basically unusable). This is with a 2 year old iMac running the latest macOS. If particles are turned off, everything is fine. This is using the Safari browser. Firefox is slightly better but still frustratingly slow..

@ivo said in Which model should Windy implement next? Please vote.:

HRRR

I would love to see HRRR (but I'm in the US, so I'm biased).

@korina @yves70 I understand that not all models have the same data. My concern is that normally the map shows the same values as hourly forecast panel. As you click different models, the map is updated as well as the hourly forecast (except for Meteoblue). However, if you follow my instructions, you end up with one model selected (ICON) yet it is ECMWF values displayed in the map. There is no way the user can easily know this and it is confusing.

@korina It may be a common behavior, but it is a wrong behavior. Either the selected model should revert to ECMWF if that is what you are showing in the map, or the map should show the values that are selected (ICON in this example). As it is it is very confusing. You think you are seeing ICON values but you are really getting ECMWF.

@korina I have reproduced this in both Safari and Chrome on macOS.

The selected forecast model at the bottom does not change. However, the values displayed in the map do and are not consistent with the selected model. ICON is still selected but the value being shown are for ECMWF.

Another way to see this is by looking at the URL. This normally gets rewritten as you select different model at the bottom.

Which the hourly forecast open at the bottom with ICON and (say) temperature displayed in the map you see:

https://www.windy.com/40.140/-105.158?icon,temp,39.660,-105.158,8,m:eL2adfT

If you now select satellite in the map, you get:

https://www.windy.com/40.140/-105.158?satellite,39.660,-105.158,8,m:eL2adfT

If you go back to temperature it becomes:

https://www.windy.com/40.140/-105.158?temp,39.660,-105.158,8,m:eL2adfT

Note that the "icon" parameter has been lost, causing it to display ECMWF values in the map. This is despite the fact that the ICON model has been selected the whole time.

The fix for the bug is when changing to a map options that has different models, you need to see what is selected in the hourly settings and use that. Note that if you don't have the hourly forecast at the bottom, the map model changes to ECMWF when returning from the Satellite option to Temperature. This is another possible fix, but I'd prefer if it remembered the model as you go from Temperature -> Satellite -> Temperature.

Hope that helps clarify things.

There is a particular sequence of events that cause the wrong map values to be displayed.

1. Start with the hourly forecast for your location displayed on the bottom
2. Select Temperature in the map and Icon (or other non ECMWF) in the hourly display.
3. Now go to the Satellite or Radar view in map. Note that Icon is still selected at the bottom.
4. Go back to Temperature in the map. Even though Icon is selected, the view is refreshed and shows ECMWF temperature values in the map.
5. You have to select something other than Icon and then go back to Icon to get the correct values displayed.

The basic issue is that after returning from the Satellite or Radar view, the map always defaults to ECMWF rather than what is currently selected. Because of this bug, I've been confused several times by the values displayed in the map.

HRRR with a write-in for ICON