@stitch Me too. It's a mess.
Posts made by jimerb
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RE: I do NOT like the new interface :-(
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RE: I do NOT like the new interface :-(
@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.)
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RE: Appearance
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.
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New Interface Problem: Pinned icons Not Working right
I have items on my homepage that are not pinned.
I can't get rid of them. For example I don't want PM2.5 there. it's not pinned -- yet there it is. I also can't put them in order. If i pin the item it jumps to the top. Then i unpin it and it jumps back to where it is on the screenshot.
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RE: Overlay for April 8 total solar eclipse
These eclipse KML's are not on the "Latest files from Community" page any longer.
I have no idea where they are. Can someone explain? I looked around on these forums but couldn't find them.
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RE: Snow Accumulation Legend Is Hard To Read
@idefix37 Yeah but you're dong Percentages so you can do that. I'm doing inches for absolute values of snow which doesn't happen all the time.
What's the point of a legend if it's useless? It should be fixed.
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RE: Snow Accumulation Legend Is Hard To Read
@idefix37 I reset the number of steps to default and set the colors again. It's still stuck on the right at 9ft with no granularity in the most important middle area. It jumps from 4 inches to 20.
Without the settings open, how would I know if the area indicated is 8 inches, 12 inches or 16 inches? There's nothing on the legend guiding me.
Why let me add/remove steps if it has no affect on the legend? Why is it stuck on 9 feet? That's of no use unless you live in Alaska.
If I can't see the details in the legend I have no idea what I'm looking at on the map. Why have a legend if I have to remember the colors? (It doesn't snow every day, I'm gonna' forget.)
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RE: Snow Accumulation Legend Is Hard To Read
@idefix37 This doesn't seem to be working. I changed the color scale but it still shows a crazy amount of space up to 9 feet. Where I live, I never get that much snow. It's not showing the granularity of steps I specified. (I actually removed some steps to make it simpler.) I'm expecting the legend to show 18" on the far right side, not 9 feet.
You can see I have a yellow and red area that's not showing at all.
I tried refreshing my cache and a different browser that I never use for Windy. -
Snow Accumulation Legend Is Hard To Read
The legend for snow accumulation is hard to read
0 to 2 inches are given a huge amount of space as is 3-9 ft. They have almost no difference in the color.
Conversely, 2 to 20 inches are compressed into the middle third but are the most likely to contain the greatest interest.
This should be made more linear expand the middle third so it more clearly shows the difference between 6 inches and 16 inches (for example.)
The way it is now, you just can't tell but the difference between 5 inches and 16 inches is big.
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Lightning but No Thunder Circles
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.
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RE: Heat Index Heat Advisories
@Mayamacane 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.
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RE: Heat Index
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.
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RE: Observation vs Forecast Hard To Read
@idefix37 I see what your saying there but it looks like the forecast model is a footnote on the popup (since it's below the row) -- not a mark of which line is which.
So if i go into this a month from now (or first time users), I'm going to first have to try and figure out which row is actual and which row is forecast.
A more proper way to display this would be to have the label on the row -- just like you do when you're explaining it in the how-to section of the documentation. This eliminates the need to have to find documentation to get the question answered. There's tons of free space to be able to include the label as the popup only occupies a small part of the screen.
From Your documentation (why not just have this type of label on the row so you don't need the doc?):
Think ease of use please. I mostly use the website.
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Observation vs Forecast Hard To Read
The "Observation vs Forecast" Feature is hard to read for causal users who don't use it that often. There are two rows but no indication which one is actual and which one is forecast.
I'm sure if you use it every day you'd remember but I won't and every time I go to use it, I'm going to have to figure it out all over again.
Labeling the rows seems like it would be super simple and handy.
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Any chance we can get a wind chill layer?
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...
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RE: Weather Radar - Odd Brown Colors
@idefix37 Whoa. That's a neat feature. thanks.
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Weather Radar - Odd Brown Colors
On the weather radar I noticed brown colors that seemed to be producing a lot of lightning during animation.
They don't tend to move like the weather system.
What are they?
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Satellite Types Appeared To Be Labled Wrong
When looking at the satellite layer, the "Blue" type appears grey and the Visible type appears blue. It seems like the labels on these two types should be switched.
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Suggestion: Hurricane Ensembles
You've got a great hurricane tracker now that has a the flexibility to show different models.
It would be great if one of those models were ensemble's or Spaghetti plots from different simulations.
I find it difficult to get a good source for those, especially layered into other aspects of weather like pressure, sea temp, etc..