I would be thrilled to see a Windy.com app on the Garmin Connect IQ app store in the future! That would really take the functionality to another level for us Garmin folks.

Push notifications and text alerts would be great. As a rope access wind turbine technician I use Windy extensively, but it's a bit of a pain to have to check my email for alerts or setup some kind of email rule that would run and send me a different notification. Windy is one of the only weather apps I use anymore and the only reason I use any others is because they offer more user-friendly notifications.

Also, lightning alerts are a bit lacking in Windy. I love the interface for tracking storms and seeing recent strikes, but there isn't a way to get notifications about them. It would be immensely helpful if we could set a customizable radius that would trigger lightning alerts at the given distance. For my job, we are on alert when lightning is within 50 miles and we call a stop work when lightning is within 30. Having this available as a push notification or text message would make Windy all the much more valuable.

PS I've been preaching the wonders of Windy to all my co-workers and everyone seems to love it except that the notifications aren't that intuitive. Keep up good work!

As I have stated previously, I love the amount of effort the team puts in to make this the best weather app on the market. However, the latest updates seems to be simply for the sake of change and not because it added any real measurable value (at least, that seems to be the consensus of a large percentage of the user base).

I think making so many dramatic changes to a UI that was (in my humble opinion as a former UX/UI designer) nearly perfect as it was, is a bit too much all at once. It's never a good idea to make a change then try to foist it upon the users because you, as the designer/developer, say that it's better. You can't know for certain if some change or update is going to be better until you put it in the hands of your users and test it in real time. After the latest update, the sentiment seems pretty clear that most of us are not in favor of the update. The ideas behind the changes seem sound, but the execution wasn't what I've come to expect from Windy.

It's so disappointing that the response from the team at Windy is generally, "you don't like it? Too bad, you will come to like it because this is how it is now." Talk about lacking understanding of your user base... I wish more than anything that I could go back to the previous version...

As a rope access wind turbine technician, my work is highly dependent on the weather which makes Windy an invaluable tool. An issue I've run into is that I can only set alerts for surface wind speed—not gusts (i.e. max wind speed), nor at a specified elevation. It would be quite helpful to be able to set an alert for max wind speed at, say, 100m which is the average height for most on-shore wind turbines. It would also be great to be able to set alerts for wind OR rain OR whatever else. Thanks for all you guys do!

The most recent mobile update made the app far less intuitive. The menu now shows a bunch of layer thumbnails (many of which looks similar) with small text that isn't easy to see at a glance. It also seems redundant to pin selected layers to the top of the main layer menu and also include a new menu that shows only pinned layers, which clutters up the UI without adding any additional benefit or functionality. When viewing the forecast for a location, it seems odd to place the forecast models in one submenu then the compare forecasts option in a different submenu. The weather picker crosshair menu at the top slides left/right a negligible amount, and it positions the right-most option directly behind the red X button. This feels like a mistake instead of a design choice. I appreciate that you guys are always working to improve things but it almost feels like this update made the app more... cartoony and less professional. All in all it seems much less refined and I have to click around way more to access most of the functionality that is most important. What really gets me, is that with all the backlash over the lastest update the response from the team at Windy seems to be mostly along the lines of "bummer, guess you'll have to get used to it."

Survey complete! Thanks for all the hard work y'all put in.

I've been a long-time user and huge fan of this app. I have almost no bad things to say about Windy, as it has served me well (within the limits of its capabilities) for quite a few years. One of the only down sides to this app is that the alerts only function with AND operators. Including alerts with the OR operator would be really outstanding. Here is a real-world example of how this would be extremely helpful:

As a rope access wind turbine technician, I can't work in certain weather conditions like high winds or rain. It's also nice to know if there are going to be extreme temperatures that we have to contend with. It would be beneficial to be able to set an individual alert for each of those conditions. Is it going to rain OR be super windy? With the way that Windy's alerts are currently setup, I can't get this information in a notification on my phone (thanks for adding push notifications!!)

It's particularly frustrating because I can't even place a second/third alert near the first one to simply create multiple alerts for the same location, because it just edits the first alert when you set another one within some relative distance.

For now, the push notifications will only help to find out if a single condition will manifest on any given day. There may be some very particular circumstances where you would want to know if it's going to be 13m/s+ wind AND raining AND over 100 degrees. But I would venture a guess that those circumstances come few and far between. However, knowing that it is going to rain tomorrow then be below freezing the next day would be much more beneficial to the everyday user.

Just the thoughts of a long-time fan and loyal user hoping to spur some kind of positive effect on an already excellent app.

Keep up the hard work!!

@idefix37 That's a great workaround. I guess what I'm getting at is that having this flexibility as a feature would make the app more intrinsically valuable and functional. Looks like I'll have to give the multiple alerts thing another go for now. Also, being able to combine the alerts for a single location would be great because it wouldn't cause clutter in the alerts panel. As it stands, I have alerts set for about 30+ wind farms across the country. If I set three alerts for each of them I would go from thirty alerts to ninety.

It's so disappointing that the response from the team at Windy is generally, "you don't like it? Too bad, you will come to like it because this is how it is now." Talk about lacking understanding of your user base... I wish more than anything that I could go back to the previous version...

As I have stated previously, I love the amount of effort the team puts in to make this the best weather app on the market. However, the latest updates seems to be simply for the sake of change and not because it added any real measurable value (at least, that seems to be the consensus of a large percentage of the user base).

I think making so many dramatic changes to a UI that was (in my humble opinion as a former UX/UI designer) nearly perfect as it was, is a bit too much all at once. It's never a good idea to make a change then try to foist it upon the users because you, as the designer/developer, say that it's better. You can't know for certain if some change or update is going to be better until you put it in the hands of your users and test it in real time. After the latest update, the sentiment seems pretty clear that most of us are not in favor of the update. The ideas behind the changes seem sound, but the execution wasn't what I've come to expect from Windy.

The most recent mobile update made the app far less intuitive. The menu now shows a bunch of layer thumbnails (many of which looks similar) with small text that isn't easy to see at a glance. It also seems redundant to pin selected layers to the top of the main layer menu and also include a new menu that shows only pinned layers, which clutters up the UI without adding any additional benefit or functionality. When viewing the forecast for a location, it seems odd to place the forecast models in one submenu then the compare forecasts option in a different submenu. The weather picker crosshair menu at the top slides left/right a negligible amount, and it positions the right-most option directly behind the red X button. This feels like a mistake instead of a design choice. I appreciate that you guys are always working to improve things but it almost feels like this update made the app more... cartoony and less professional. All in all it seems much less refined and I have to click around way more to access most of the functionality that is most important. What really gets me, is that with all the backlash over the lastest update the response from the team at Windy seems to be mostly along the lines of "bummer, guess you'll have to get used to it."

ECMWF is my preferred model. It is consistently the most accurate on the wind farms where I work across the United States. I also like the fact that it offers the ability to view wind forecast for different altitudes. It's a great option for assessing the future forecast and it works well when compared to NAM to get a short-term view of the weather.

Survey complete! Thanks for all the hard work y'all put in.

I would be thrilled to see a Windy.com app on the Garmin Connect IQ app store in the future! That would really take the functionality to another level for us Garmin folks.

As a rope access wind turbine technician, my work is highly dependent on the weather which makes Windy an invaluable tool. An issue I've run into is that I can only set alerts for surface wind speed—not gusts (i.e. max wind speed), nor at a specified elevation. It would be quite helpful to be able to set an alert for max wind speed at, say, 100m which is the average height for most on-shore wind turbines. It would also be great to be able to set alerts for wind OR rain OR whatever else. Thanks for all you guys do!

I've started having this same issue recently. My work takes me on the road frequently and I usually stay a distance from the work site so I set the widget location to the location of the site instead of my GPS location. When I change the widget settings back to GPS after leaving the job it will continue to show the previous location I had selected. I can refresh the widget and it will show the correct location for a short period of time but then revert back to the incorrect location again. I have location turned on, GPS location set to the startup location, and I've tried everything else I can think of and this issue persists. It's really frustrating that the only option I have at this time to fix the problem is to uninstall and reinstall the app. Hopefully this gets addressed soon.

@idefix37 That's a great workaround. I guess what I'm getting at is that having this flexibility as a feature would make the app more intrinsically valuable and functional. Looks like I'll have to give the multiple alerts thing another go for now. Also, being able to combine the alerts for a single location would be great because it wouldn't cause clutter in the alerts panel. As it stands, I have alerts set for about 30+ wind farms across the country. If I set three alerts for each of them I would go from thirty alerts to ninety.

I've been a long-time user and huge fan of this app. I have almost no bad things to say about Windy, as it has served me well (within the limits of its capabilities) for quite a few years. One of the only down sides to this app is that the alerts only function with AND operators. Including alerts with the OR operator would be really outstanding. Here is a real-world example of how this would be extremely helpful:

As a rope access wind turbine technician, I can't work in certain weather conditions like high winds or rain. It's also nice to know if there are going to be extreme temperatures that we have to contend with. It would be beneficial to be able to set an individual alert for each of those conditions. Is it going to rain OR be super windy? With the way that Windy's alerts are currently setup, I can't get this information in a notification on my phone (thanks for adding push notifications!!)

It's particularly frustrating because I can't even place a second/third alert near the first one to simply create multiple alerts for the same location, because it just edits the first alert when you set another one within some relative distance.

For now, the push notifications will only help to find out if a single condition will manifest on any given day. There may be some very particular circumstances where you would want to know if it's going to be 13m/s+ wind AND raining AND over 100 degrees. But I would venture a guess that those circumstances come few and far between. However, knowing that it is going to rain tomorrow then be below freezing the next day would be much more beneficial to the everyday user.

Just the thoughts of a long-time fan and loyal user hoping to spur some kind of positive effect on an already excellent app.

Keep up the hard work!!