It was just launched. We will see how the quality of the model will be.

It is not about the model itself, resolution or supercomputer it uses. It is about initialization data, that make forecast model so good.

Ivo

All the satellite images out there, are delivered in 5 to 15 minutes steps.

But can you imagine seamless, real time satellite imagery. It is technically impossible, yet we have tried to do our magic. Tomas, Jindra and Milan came with the concept of interpolation of missing images, that display clouds movement in "real-time" (quotes are necessary, since it is not real-time in fact). But not only that, satellite images are much more detailed and sharper, then in previous version.

See the difference in the video, it is amazing :)

To save bandwidth or spare your notebook battery you can switch off this feature off in Menu > Settings by disabling Smooth satellite animation switch.

This new feature is available on desktop only and we are still not sure, if we port this to our mobile apps, where bandwidth can be a limiting issue.

So enjoy new satellite and stay safe.

Ivo

@castello-v Well you are very wrong about me. I am very careful driver, driving very slow and also very careful pilot flying safe.

And concerning coronavirus, I do respect all restrictions, but I think the media buzz and social media hysteria just spread fear and does not help at all.

BTW I have personally decided that one of my company will donate equivalent of 4 mil USD to help small Czech companies that were hit by the crisis. I do personally fly a small plane do distribute protective equipment to the hospitals.

Meteoblue is not NEMS. Those are two different datasets.

@Kopansky Neni pravda, ze jsme tady diky prispevovatelum. Bohuzel v roce 2019 jsme vybrali pouze POLOVINU nasich nakladu. Je to sice velika pomoc, ale Windy je zde kvuli investorovi, ktery jeho provoz dlouhodobe dotuje.

@Kopansky Vas prispevek se vztahoval k provozu v roce 2019. Vybrali jsme zhruba polovinu nasich nakladu. V roce 2020 mame naklady vyssi. Pokud mate Windy radi predpadte si Windy Premium.

@Kopansky Kvuli zachovani anonymity byly prispevky ANONYMNI, tj my je musime parovat rucne. To je dost pracne a proto je tam limit 50 EUR. A musime doufat ze ty zadosti budou prichazet pomalu, abychom to zvladli.

Hi, I am Ivo, founder of Windy.com.

The times we are living in are not normal. We, pilots, kiters, sailors, and all the outdoor people value freedom the most. Yet we are being told to stay home.

Most of us, including me, have no fear of death, and some of us, also including me, challenged life-threatening situations a few times. Yes, death is an integral part of life, and we all have to die someday. Yet we are witnessing the panic and hysteria that is not the equal danger we are facing.

At Windy, we are working from home, using teleconferences to see each other, so everything is running as usual, and we have no service outages at all. But making innovations in this environment is a little bit difficult. And four weeks of lockdown, took its toll on our spirits.

As you know, in 2019, we have collected almost 500.000,- EUR/USD in voluntary donations from 55.000 donors, and we are grateful for that. Some of the donors were so generous that they send us a few thousand dollars. Thank you very much for this help.

But in order not to loose cash as hell, we need at least to double that amount. Windy.com is becoming more and more popular and offers more and more services. We have to pay an enormous amount for infrastructure to serve millions of users we have, and the amount doubles every year.

Windy Premium

Unfortunately, the coronavirus crisis stopped the economy. It broke our plans to find an income in the B2B segment, so we have decided to launch a Windy Premium subscription (details). It will offer something more for just the price of one lunch.

Bear in mind that Windy.com remains free of charge, fast as hell, and without any advertisement or tracking cookies. And everything, what was for free in 2019, remains free in 2020. Our subscription covers only new functionality that was not present in Windy.com in the past. And of course, our generous donors will get one year of subscription for free (details here).

So far, Windy Premium offers a 1h forecast. We also plan to add a 6h update time for the ECMWF model.

Windy Premium is available on desktop and in our mobile apps version 24.0.0, that are being updated right now.

We need your help

But running the company from our bedrooms and developing this functionality is very difficult. These times are not typical, so please be patient and tolerant of the mistakes we make. We have difficulty in pairing some of the payments with your user account. Some of the problems are caused by not so reliable third party services that collect these payments for us. We are working hard to fix these issues.

Dear Windy.com friend.

The times we are living in are not normal. We are staying at home, and the only risk we are taking now is overeating and gaining more weight. But all the pandemics have ended someday.

I am sure that we will see each other personally sooner that we think. We will see each other on kiting beach, airport, marina or in the mountains and we will have many perfect sessions, flights or sails together.

Stay safe, keep social distancing, and do not catch the coronavirus.

Ivo

We use hundreds of IP addresses dynamically allocated. You have to whitelist domain windy.com

2019 was a very successful year for us. Thanks to your generous donations, we were able to collect an incredible amount of around 450.000,- EUR/USD from our contributors. Your actions helped us tremendously to keep Windy fast, and free of any advertisements or tracking cookies. Meanwhile we have been working very hard on bringing you bunch of new features in 2020. And here we are again.

To reach a sustainable income, we are introducing Windy Premium. One hour detailed forecast, just for price of a better lunch (approx 19.99 USD/EUR) for a whole year.

But not only that. In case we will decide to put advertising on website or cut down on our infrastructure costs, Windy Premium subscribers will have guarantee, that Windy stays as it is: Served from 44 locations worldwide, fast as hell, and no ads and or tracking cookies.

One hour forecast is available for all major models we provide (including ECMWF).

Subscription will be available across all three platforms iOS, Android and Desktop with a monthly or annual option. Purchased premium subscription can be managed on each of these platforms, depending where your order was made.

Please note, the current features stay without any change and are still available for non premium users, that also includes standard 3 hour forecast and updates 2 times a day.

Get 1 year for free

Have you already donated to Windy and the total amount was $50 or above? Then you are eligible to receive a free subscription for a whole year. We value our users and appreciate the support you have given to us so far.

In this case please contact us at info@windy.com and enclose your username and email, with details of your donation. You will receive a redeem code for your free subscription offer.

Yes I tell you precisely, because I have this information. The 3d mode will be back exactly 23. May at 22:25Z.

Just messing with you ha ha ha. You should consider your language. We do not like when users gave us ultimatums.

WOW this is actual screenshot of client's code. Hats off to our mktng dptmnt

Jase bojim ze v knihovne lib.js neni detail vubec uvazovan. Je to omezeny subset kodu.

Windy Maps is Android and iOS app, that offer Worldwide offline hiking map, route planner and sport tracker.

Developed by a Prague based company Seznam.cz it is backed by more than 15+ years of mapping know how, developed and maintained by tens of dedicated persons.

I am from Europe and I must confirm that in Europe and mostly in Alps, Meteoblue has no competition regrading temperatures or wind.

As of clouds and precipitation ECMWF is leader

@meteoblue So happy to have Meteoblue in our community. Welcome!!!!

You mean you favourites layers? This must be bug.

Jörg Eugster is a visionary man from Switzerland. He had this brilliant idea of aggregating weather outdoor webcams. Switzerland is mountain country, with specific weather phenomena in each valley, and therefore checking webcam before trip become important part of any travel planning. Jorg founded webcams.travel website in 2007 and later on in 2013 sleek and modern lookr.com. Both websites gained its momentum soon and whoever wanted to go skiing in Alps, got in touch with webcams.travel.

We, at Windy, also believe, that checking weather webcam is necessary part of each adventure.

And we, at Windy, are committed to provide better and better service for people like myself. For pilots, kiters, adventurers, mountaineers and all the souls, who are rather outside, than inside the shopping mall.

But not only that. We, at Windy believe, that checking outdoor webcams, before your adventure, for example before your flight with small plane, can significantly increase level of your safety.

So after I have checked that weather is good on webcams, even in mountains, I have flown from Prague to Switzerland with small helicopter, to meet Jorg personally.

I love to talk with clever people, so together with Jorg, we have immediately found common ground and later on we have agreed to merge all three projects (Windy.com, webcams.travel and lookr.com) together.

Ingo Oppermann, main programmer of webcams.travel and lookr.com worked on both projects since 2007. He developed both websites, but not only that. He was able to manage all the technical stack by himself. And he did excellent job. Both websites runned smooth and fast, and webcams API that they provided was able to serve billions of requests with minimal delay. This is just called Swiss service.

But since we want to actually merge projects together we had to abandon this legacy codes and convert it to the latest technology stack. And we are happy that Ingo helped us a lot to do this difficult job, not to mention a lot of Swiss chocolate he brought us to Prague. It took several months of hard work, but Ingo, Martin, Filip, Marek and David later on did really great job. But most of the work was done by Jan (snowkiter and VAKE 2019 winner) who coordinated it all.

Our main goal is to increase amount of webcams in our database and also provide webcam pictures in a little bit more convenient format without advertisement and tracking cookie. As of now, both websites (webcams.travel, lookr.com) should be redirected to Windy.com/webcams so you can see yourself, if you like how we merged all projects together.

Webcams API

webcams.travel provided popular API to developers so they can integrate their webcams to their website.

We have full commitment to continue providing webcams API to other websites and developers, and we will not restrict anyone.

Of course there will be changes in the API, like new conditions, API endpoints, change of API authorisation and also output JSON format will also slightly changed.

All the changes will be announced in timely manner so developers will have time to adjust their services. Therefore please watch Webcams API category of our Community to stay informed in advance.

Further info about Windy Webcams

• Add new webcam to Windy
• Webcams API discussion
• Windy Webcams discussion

Enjoy new webcams on Windy and stay safe

Ivo

Related content

• Windy Tutorial: How to add your webcam to Windy

All announcements and changes regarding Webcams API will go to this category.

Ahoj, jsem Ivo, zakladatel Seznam.cz a taky Windy.com, nejúspěšnějšího českého start-upu. Windy jsem naprogramoval v listopadu 2014, od té doby jsme se stali celosvětově jednou z nejpopulárnějších aplikací s předpovědí počasí.

Ve Windy jsme parta nadšených programátorů a hledáme nového kolegu pro vývoj mobilních aplikací.


Koho přesně hledáme?

• Nadšence, který by doplnil náš tým.
• Klíčovými vlastnostmi jsou inteligence a samostatnost.
• Mělo by se jednat o člověka, který má zkušenosti s vývojem mobilních aplikací pro iOS nebo Android a perfektně ovládá alespoň jeden z těchto jazyků:
  C++, Swift, Objective C, Java.

Výhodou pro tebe bude, pokud máš zkušenost s vývojem webu v Javascriptu+HTML+CSS, a také pokud znáš některou z těchto technologií:
OpenGL, Cordova, Node.js, Docker.


Co můžeš očekávat?

• Budeš pracovat na novém produktu, který mám v hlavě.
• Půjde o velmi samostatnou práci pod mým vedením.
• Také budeš upravovat stávající Windy mobilní aplikace a widgety.
• Jsme technologický start-up, soustředíme se na vývoj nových produktů.
• Nevyžíváme se v dlouhých poradách a preferujeme osobní přístup před formalismy.
• V naší firmě najdeš přátelský kolektiv nadšených lidí a velmi příjemné a neformální pracovní prostředí v kanceláři na břehu Vltavy.
• Možnost získání akcií těm nejlepším.
  
  
  Pokud tě tato nabídka zaujala, pošli nám strukturovaný životopis a my se ti brzy ozveme.

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