Dear @Nicole-Dolezalova ,

Thank you for your willingness to fix this issue;
I checked today on a few examples, and it seems we have now a 1-Hour resolution with Meteoblue model.

Great !

A more aligned view, for July 2, 2024. Look at the 1 hour rain at 10pm below that becomes 3-hours rain above on Windy.
Every forecast each hour is a the same 3-hours forecast

@kkantoutsis said in Is Windy premium a fraud?:

@Franckielestore

Yes it is true, I confirm it, but it only happens in the precipitation of Meteoblue. I think nowhere else.

In any case, windy premium is not a fraud. Also, you don't have to worry, you can take your money back the first 14 days.

Ah no, it is ot only in the precipitation.
It is for any type of icon (partly cloudy, cloudy, ...)
You will always find them by group of 3.
Sometimes you can have the feeling that this is not a case because the appearance switch between night and day.
To me it's fraud because this is not what they claim to get our money : 1-hour forecast

@Korina said in Change default forecast model:

@sackelrapp Hi, we will add this option to the upcoming update, which should be released within a few weeks. If you set for e.g. ICON model in the widget, you will also see ICON in the detailed forecast if you open Windy through widget.

Hi,
Two years later, is this option available; is it possible to set the default forecast model once for all?

My post title seems provocative but listen to what I discovered.
I have subscribed to Windy premium today for one unique reason :
get hourly forecasts of Meteoblue model instead of the free 3-hours forecasts.
This is where I discovered that instead of providing the real 1-hour forecast from the Meteoblue API, Windy simply expands the 3-hours forecasts by multiplying by three the same forecasts.
This is why you will always have the same Meteoblue forecasts for each block of 3 hours, or 6 or 9 or 12, ... hours (multiples of 3)

I have several proof of that because of course I have access to their forecats on their app.

I will just show one example : look at Saturday June 29th until July 1, and see how the forecasts are always 3 times the same , which is not the case at all on Meteoblue app.

The following is an example extracted from MeteoBlue website for the same location for Saturday June 29th

Why is Windy.com doing that? It it to avoid fees to Meteoblue (access to API)?

To illustrate my question, here's a snapshot of the same period, same location, from the hourly widget and the app on ios.
Why is it different? I saw it multiple times.

In your opinion which of these three following widgets showing daily forecasts is the most readable? And the less?

You have to figure out that in this post, this is way bigger than on an iphone screen

The less readable one is the one of Windy Premium.
Very small symbols (should be 3 times the size), bad choice of colours and background.

Why is it so difficult to design a widget that users can read easily?

Dear @Nicole-Dolezalova ,

Thank you for your willingness to fix this issue;
I checked today on a few examples, and it seems we have now a 1-Hour resolution with Meteoblue model.

Great !

In summary, the values like temperature and wind have a one-hour resolution. The weather icons have a 3-hours only resolution.
This is not what I paid for with a premium subscription.

@idefix37 Very simple. Look at my blue rectangle in your screenshot.
I am talking of the sky condition.

And a concrete example with :

Meteoblue forecast (Pechbusque, June 13)

Windy meteoblue API ((Pechbusque, June 13)

You will never ever find a sequence of sky conditions smaller than a 3 hours resolution.

Windy has acquired Meteoblue.
Despite of that, we still do not have access to 1 hour Meteoblue forecasts under windy app.
Instead we have 3 hours forecasts, and when you switch from 3 hours to 1 hour you just get the same multiplied by 3.
This is why you will always see 3 times in a row the same forecast if you use meteoblue model hourly forecasts.

Why is is so difficult for Windy to use the Meteoblue API?
Sonuby app does it correctly so this shouldn’t be mission impossible!

@sihida The answer for an hour difference is simply that Meteoblue has made the choice to display its forecasts in its app with one hour difference.
This affects only their application, not their website or API. Windy uses the API.

This is a choice they make to display 9h for the 8h-9h interval;
This is very misleading.

Now that Windy has acquired Meteoblue, you may be successfull in asking them to fix it.

@Suty
There is no better visibility offered by other widgets. There exists another hourly widget for instance, with half the number of symbols but whose size is half the size of the big widget. So the symbol size is the same.
It’s a pity that windy developers don’t use their own widget, if they did thez would immediately react.

@Suty

Imagine this on an Iphone XR (which is not the smallest screen)

How come are the windy widgets (even the premium) not readable. The symbols are so small that you can not see what they are.
See my screenshot with a comparison between windy and foreca or weawow apps.
Is it planned to improve the readability ?