Posts made by Curtis2010

The liscencing issue only applies to ECMWF. All model output produced by USA agencies is public domain (free to use, no liscencing). So Windy could work with GRIB output from GFS with no issues. Windy already supports use of GFS so this should be a relatively straight forward implementation.

Implementing GRIB viewing capability in Windy would be a powerful addition. End users could download their own GRIBs, from whatever model(s) they choose, and view in Windy (as is now done by all other GRIB viewers).

For us offshore sailors, who commonly have the ability to download a GRIB over low bandwidth interfaces which wont reliably support an online session, this would be a great upgrade vs existing GRIB viewers (many of which are a bit clunky).

Ive sailed the Panamanian Caribbean coast for the past 6 years and know the current patterns here. I recently displayed Marine Currents via Windy for the Panama Caribbean coast and they were wildly innaccurate. The only model available for currents under Windy is apparently NESDIS... and it is WAY wrong here at least (180° wrong on much of the coast). Copernicus is much closer to reality here.

My suggestion is to make multiple current models available as is done with weather models.