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Why not have an option at the top of the page, "Try New Interface" a month before launch?

Then you could let people try the interface, provide feedback and switch it off until things get fixed.

That would be far better than messing things up.

@Suty Please allow the enabling of labels... Nothing is more important that that. Icons that look like screen grab of a map are meaningless to me.

@korina Cool. Any plans to show the United states radiation?

@korina said in Wind Chill:

@jimerb Relative humidity is already available at https://www.windy.com/-Humidity-rh?rh,33.375,-22.220,3

yes but often sites compute a "real feel" temperature in much the same way as windchill.

80deg with 95% humidity feels hotter than 90 degrees with low humidity for example. The air's ability to evaporate sweat is inhibited because of the saturated air. So it feels hotter.

While your at it a measurement for the summer given relative humidity would be helpful. It would make the data helpful year round.

@stitch Me too. It's a mess.

@Suty The design should respect the fact that your entire user base knows the system already. If they find it less intuitive -- then it is less intuitive. There's 10 zillion layers -- who WANTS to remember what 10 zillion icons look like? You NEED labels. (and hovering over 10 labels to find the popup is not the answer.)

I use midjourney and they always are conducting "micro surveys" to get quick feedback on what users would like. They may do 5 or 6 of these a week.

They may ask for example,

How do you feel about having icons in the toolbar with no labels?

1. Strongly oppose
2. oppose
3. Neutral
4. In Favor
5. Strongly In Favor

Then in just a day or so, the admins / developers know if it's a good idea or not to implement a change they have in mind without investing in the development time first. Here's an (off topic) example so you can see how it looks:

There are a few Plugins I always want to play with.

Is there a way to make it so they are always installed instead of adding them each time i launch my browser?

Thanks.

on the forecast for a location, dusk is shown along with Sunrise and Sunset.

But dawn is conspicuously missing.

When planning a photo shoot, I often map out the weather at a location and it's usually the case I'm trying to catch first or last light.

It would be great if you could add dawn (nautical twilight.) It would save me from having to look it up elsewhere.

I've been noticing that Windy's base map has amazing park trails.

Hiking and weather go hand-in-hand.

But when I use the app, i cannot get an updating location on where I am, so i can't take advantage of the cool map that's right before my eyes.

It would be great if I could zoom in and see myself on the trail and have it update in real time. Then, not only could I use that to help navigate, but with the radar layer on I could see approaching precipitation. A little arrow would be nice too, so I could see which way I was heading.

Seems like this would be a pretty straightforward improvement.

Hope you consider. This would give you a new way to promote your tool too. You could tout it as a tool to help you boat, hike, run, etc.

You'll notice here, that my position isn't on the map.

Note: I have given windy permission to use my exact location in the phones settings.

Just wanted to say I agree. This needs to be added. It's neat at first but unnecessary especially if you're looking at a large area.

Re: Wind Chill

It's super cold in the United States and windy as heck right now.

It sure would be nice to have a wind chill layer.

This was recommended before but wanted to give it a bump...

I couldn't agree more, and while your at it add windchill since that's similar in cold weather.

These layers seem to be a matter of simple math based on the data that is there already.

I'm surprised it's not already a layer.

@korina Awesome. A welcome feature.

I'd like to see a drag feature where i can move the actual hurricane by dragging my thumb over it on the screen.

Can you work on that?

LOL

My toolbar is not formatting properly. It is unexpectedly taking two columns instead of one. This is repeatable on my windows 11 computer with firefox browser. Edge is working okay but I don't use that.

The browser's zoom is 100%.

Here's a screen Image:

There have been times when I would get circles emanating from lighting strikes on the radar layer to show the thunder as it travels. But that hasn't been happening for me as of late.

I go to an area with active lightning and as new strikes occur there are no thunder circles.

Why is this? Do i have to turn something on?

I use the desktop and IOS apps for ipad and iphone.

It would be really neat to see extreme weather Ensembles from the different predictive models for hurricanes.

I find it hard to find these and none have the savviness of Windy's visualization system.

Under the Extreme Forecast settings or maybe under the more layers down below (where the "pressure slider" is.

It would be really neat to be able to see aircraft in flight. Like a little icon next to the airports icon.

I would love to be able to visualize how aircraft are using wind and different elevations to save fuel. Sort of a commercial industries version of analyzing the weather.

How are they hugging the jet-stream? Are they avoiding strong head winds? How are they avoiding hurricanes?

Maybe a Turbulence layer?

There are probably other benefits for people who work in the Airline industry that I'm not thinking about.

And If you clicked on a plane it could tell you it's expected arrival time. Helpful for Livery services to help paint a full picture of possible delays in turbulent weather.

It would be neat if it also calculated a "real feel" for the summer that factored in the humidity and wind to give an indication of evaporation cooling.

Very humid areas feel hotter than warm dry areas for example.

This way the data wouldn't be useless half the year when it's warm out.