Posts made by drvonsam

I just wanted to express appreciation for the "Smooth radar and satellite animation" toggle feature! The smooth animation has potential but is much too buggy to be used all the time.

Thank you for all the effort on improving Windy!

@Suty I sent videos via email.

Additionally, I accidentally discovered you can disable the motion interpolation/smoothing in the satellite layer if you rotate the phone and back during playback (this may not work for everyone, and doesn't work for PC). This looks more real and is easier to watch because it lacks the smoothness and strange artifacts caused by the interpolated frames. This does not work for the radar layer.

Hello,

The radar and satellite layers appear to have some artificial frames or animation smoothing applied for replay and it’s very glitchy and distracting. Within the satellite layer the clouds will twist and wiggle strangely as it generates the artificial frames/data. This may also be leading to the radar layer appearing to jump around and warp.

The undesirable effects of the animation smoothing occur on Android and PC. iOS-iPad may not have the smoothing feature at the moment.*

More traditional radar and satellite replay with true frames/data and the more “jumpy” data/video is easier to watch, less glitchy, and more useful. There should be an option to disable the animation smoothing for those that don’t want it.

Please consider adding a setting to toggle animation smoothing/artificial frames (or whatever the correct term is) for all layers where it is available, instead of forcing it.

Thank you for your time and efforts in maintaining and improving the app! It’s a valuable tool in my weather analysis toolbox!

Edit: *Correction

When looking at the forecast, the day/date is one day off. It currently shows that it’s Sunday the 12th even though it’s Monday the 13th. This is seen on Android phone, Apple tablet, and Windows PC (Firefox).
Attempted closing app and clearing cache. Tried connecting to Windy on WiFi and Mobile data. The first picture shows the issue.

Clicking around, it appears that there is a "split" down North and South America where the west shows Sunday and the correct time (Late morning at this point) and the east shows Monday but the highlighted time is 0:00. The "split" doesn't appear to be lined up with a timezone. For example, the second picture is North Carolina.

Everything appears normal all around the rest of the world. This last photo is a town in Svalbard.

Pardon my imperial units.