Please, please, please, add the option to automatically load a plugin specified in the URL. It's annoying to always need to find my plugin in the list and open it manually. Also, it's hard to refer a plugin to other people, I need to give them instructions instead of just a URL.

I understand that there are some security concerns but can you allow this at least for the official plugins that show in the UI?

When doing it, please allow loading more plugins at the same time, the URL could be e.g. windy.com/?plugin=pg-mapa&plugin=airspaces.

@ivo The plugins are great. Would it be possible to persist the plugins I loaded? Either by storing the loaded plugins in Local Storage or at least by putting the loaded plugins into URL (something like /?plugin=windy-plugin-pg).

Let us know if we should add your plugin to the list

I've created windy-plugin-pg-mapa. I would like it to be published. Please let me know if you need me to do something else.

There's also a Windy API version at https://pg.vrana.cz/mapa/ which works only with GFS but it's available on mobiles too.

I've created windy-plugin-flymet. It displays layers from FLYMET in Windy. The advantages over the official website is easier time travel, combination with Windy forecast (e.g. wind) and usage together with other Windy plugins (e.g. PG map). I have the permission of the author (Petr Horák) to use the images.

I've created a poor man solution to load the plugins I always use with a bookmarklet. Create a browser bookmark with this URL (strip the newlines if need to but e.g. Chrome does that automatically, keep javascript:):

javascript:
function loadPlugin(id) {
  document.querySelector('[href="#load"]').click();
  setTimeout(() => {
    const input = document.querySelector('[placeholder="Example: windy-plugin-hello-world"]');
    input.value = id;
    input.dispatchEvent(new InputEvent('input'));
    input.nextElementSibling.children[1].click();
  });
}
loadPlugin('windy-plugin-pg-mapa');
setTimeout(() => {
  W.broadcast.fire('rqstOpen', 'plugins');
  setTimeout(() => loadPlugin('windy-plugin-flymet'));
}, 3000);

Then open https://www.windy.com/plugins and click this bookmark. It will open the plugins I use.

It works for me now too.

Wind comparison allows selecting ECMWF, GFS and Icon as primary but Arome and Meteoblue not. I see no reason for it as both Arome and Meteoblue could be selected as a model for the map. Arome even stays as primary when showing the wind comparison and it is then in this weird state that it's both selected and disabled:

Meteoblue couldn't be primary for an unknown reason. Could it be just because it's named NEMS in the model selection and Meteoblue in the Wind comparison? Please unify this, it's confusing.

I've temporarily solved it by using an internal API:

W.tileInterpolator.createFun(interpolate => {
  var data = interpolate({lat, lon});
});

@marekd The plugins aren't available on mobile which is a deal breaker for me. But I'll probably create both the plugin and the app using API.

The plugins are actually available on mobile, there's just no menu item for them. If you open https://www.windy.com/plugins on mobile then you can use them. If you open this link from other app (not a browser) then you can use them even in the Windy app (which hijacks the opened URL and opens itself, at least on iOS).

@marekd Great, thanks.

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Create your own animation at https://www.windy.com/animate

I've created a poor man solution to load the plugins I always use with a bookmarklet. Create a browser bookmark with this URL (strip the newlines if need to but e.g. Chrome does that automatically, keep javascript:):

javascript:
function loadPlugin(id) {
  document.querySelector('[href="#load"]').click();
  setTimeout(() => {
    const input = document.querySelector('[placeholder="Example: windy-plugin-hello-world"]');
    input.value = id;
    input.dispatchEvent(new InputEvent('input'));
    input.nextElementSibling.children[1].click();
  });
}
loadPlugin('windy-plugin-pg-mapa');
setTimeout(() => {
  W.broadcast.fire('rqstOpen', 'plugins');
  setTimeout(() => loadPlugin('windy-plugin-flymet'));
}, 3000);

Then open https://www.windy.com/plugins and click this bookmark. It will open the plugins I use.

Yes, thanks.

Thanks for the replies. This was the problem: I've had the 1h forecast checkbox checked so it seemed like everything should work:

However when I clicked on it, it asked me to buy Windy Premium (which I already bought). I tried to restore my purchases and found two orders in FastSpring: one free (try-out period) and one paid. I've entered the order reference from the paid one but Windy said it's not valid. I've entered the free one and now everything works.

What's interesting is that the forecast was displayed by one hour:

Only the keyboard shortcuts were broken.

I have Windy Premium. Initially, it was possible to skip with left arrow and right arrow keyboard shortcuts by an hour which was great for my use case. Now it skips by 3 hours (same as free version). I am able to skip by an hour in the timeline, this post is only about the keyboard shortcuts.

If you changed the behavior based on some user feedback, can you please add a setting for this?

I've created windy-plugin-flymet. It displays layers from FLYMET in Windy. The advantages over the official website is easier time travel, combination with Windy forecast (e.g. wind) and usage together with other Windy plugins (e.g. PG map). I have the permission of the author (Petr Horák) to use the images.

Then it's even more confusing because if I select NEMS model then it displays “NEMS4 model by meteoblue” watermark. It also doesn't explain why NEMS is not in the wind comparison but Meteoblue is.

Wind comparison allows selecting ECMWF, GFS and Icon as primary but Arome and Meteoblue not. I see no reason for it as both Arome and Meteoblue could be selected as a model for the map. Arome even stays as primary when showing the wind comparison and it is then in this weird state that it's both selected and disabled:

Meteoblue couldn't be primary for an unknown reason. Could it be just because it's named NEMS in the model selection and Meteoblue in the Wind comparison? Please unify this, it's confusing.

It works for me now too.

Clicking on the Geopot. height in the More layers does nothing and displays this error in the developer console:

Access to XMLHttpRequest at 'https://ims.windy.com/ecmwf-hres/2020/04/19/18/siw0/0/0/gh-surface.json?reftime=2020041900' from origin 'https://www.windy.com' has been blocked by CORS policy: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource.