@chis Scales can be changed in settings.

Click on in the upper left corner of the screen and choose Settings.

Scroll down and the second to the last option is Modify Layer Colors. Click there to get the display of:

You can choose any item, change its value, change colors or add/remove items to customize nearly everything displayed on overlays. The graphic above shows feet but yours will display whichever display you have chosen. Have fun!

My guess is having lived in a northern part of the US in the past, we called it sleet. The difference is raindrops fall but freeze before hitting the ground. Hail bounces around up in the air adding layer and layers. Sleet is a cold weather issue and hail is a warm weather issue.

Check out the video of Mike Seidel of the Weather Channel as he struggles to keep his balance during a faked Hurricane Florence segment. He clearly is struggling to keep his balance in the "fierce" wind until we see 2 guys in the background casually walking by not affected by the supposed fierce wind at all. Note in the upper left corner of the screen that the wind was only 29 MPH. A Weather Channel statement said he was tired and on slippery grass. Of course pavement was only a foot or two away from him. It is incredible that Mike Seidel and the Weather Channel faked this segment given all the actual severe weather in the area.

Shame on Mike Seidel and the Weather Channel.

Take some time and enjoy all the spoofs that have been posted already on YouTube.

I just checked every stat and screen I could for San Diego, the area I live in, and all of them were correct, spot on. So respectively, I disagree with you. If there is some place with bad data, you should document it, take some screen shots and post them here for the programmers to check out.

For those of you who wanted an easy way to navigate back to Windy, your idea has come to fruition. At the top left of a Community page, a new World icon is now available. Just click on the button and you are whisked back to Windy.com. Keep your suggestions coming and the programming gurus will help if they can.

@coll51 You can change any color on any overlay in the settings. Click on the and select Settings.
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Scroll to the bottom of settings and find Modify Layer Colors. . You will get a window like below:

You can then use the pull down menu and choose any overlay. By clicking on the color chart, you can add, delete, and/or change any color to something more pleasing to you. WARNING!!! . You may loose several hours of your life changing items to your liking. LOL! I know I have.

Weather history is a frequent request for Windy. My understanding is that it is a much bigger and more difficult project than most people realize. They are looking for possible solutions but right now they are focusing on some money making projects to help pay the bills. If they cannot pay the bills, Windy might not be free to everyone. Check out the thread at https://community.windy.com/post/5645.

This morning when I logged into the Windy Community, the header on the page was messed up. I have a screenshot but for some reason the Windy Community says: ERROR . You do not have enough privileges for this action. Here is a Dropbox link to the pic:
Community Header Pic
I get the same problem with Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Opera. Must be an issue with the Forum software.

@frank46530

You should see a set of bars (like above) at the lower right corner of the screen. Just click and/or keep clicking the lowest one (probably where you see the mm display right now) and eventually inches will display.

Is it possible that you have the elevation set to something like 9000m/300hPa? When I do that I get a completely purple picture in Opera and Firefox.

In the second to the last paragraph on the cumulonimbus learning clouds section, you wrote shalter and I think you meant to write shelter. I do like all the new enhancements to Windy.

In the last hour, Hurricane Michael has made landfall and as a strong Cat-4 hurricane just short of a Cat-5 with 155 mph (250 kph) winds and gusts to 175 mph (280 kph). It is moving at a fast 14 mph (23 kph). The pressure was just measured at 928 mb, one of the lowest ever to hit a US coast even lower than Hurricane Katrina.

You can probably find out everything you want to know about the current Windy API4 at Windy API v4.

There are some Windy layers which cannot be changed when using an Android or iOS device. Rain Accumulation is one of them. If you would like the list of layers which cannot be changed, it is available at Overview of units used on Windy. If you aren't interested in looking up items like this (as most users would not want to do also), then make any of those changes using the Windy website using a browser. Changes made using a browser save to the cloud and will then be available when using either an Android or iOS app. If you cannot make a change using a browser, then submit a bug report.

I just opened Windy in my browser and changed my accumulation scale to mm.

Then I set my overall setting to mm for rain.

I closed the Windy tab and reopened it fresh and my settings were still both mm.

Then I left settings in mm but changed the scale to inches, closed and reopened Windy and Windy remembered both settings. Could this be browser specific? I am using Opera on a Mac. What do you use?

Ahh, found it. I was using an app initially but realize what you were saying once I launched my browser. Yes, it seems to be a mistake but you can change the number to 31.2 by adding a period to the number right there as just did. I agree that the default value is not correct.

Admins, take note!

Check out the video of Mike Seidel of the Weather Channel as he struggles to keep his balance during a faked Hurricane Florence segment. He clearly is struggling to keep his balance in the "fierce" wind until we see 2 guys in the background casually walking by not affected by the supposed fierce wind at all. Note in the upper left corner of the screen that the wind was only 29 MPH. A Weather Channel statement said he was tired and on slippery grass. Of course pavement was only a foot or two away from him. It is incredible that Mike Seidel and the Weather Channel faked this segment given all the actual severe weather in the area.

Shame on Mike Seidel and the Weather Channel.

Take some time and enjoy all the spoofs that have been posted already on YouTube.

Directions to set Main Menu Settings to your desired preference.

For this answer, I'll assume you are using an Android or iOS app and the main settings are in mm. Here is the process to change Main Settings to inches. The pictures are screenshots of my iPhone X but any Android phone should be similar.

First, click on the current layer icon to get to the Main Layer Menu.

Next you will see the Main Layer Menu.

Scroll the menu all the way to the bottom and click on Advance Settings.

You will then see the general Setting Menu.

Make sure the items in the red box are set to inches for Rain and/or Snow. Set any other general setting you wish to change. When you exit the Main Menu, all will be saved.

I'm not sure what you are referring to when you wrote color scale. If you mean the scale at the lower right corner, then my scale tops out at 3 ft.

Would you be more specific? Are you using a browser or app? Which app or which browser? Are you referring to a different scale than in my pic?

A single click is the Windy method to show a picker at a location so if you click anywhere, one will display. If you are attempting to move the map around, click and quickly move the map around to your desired location without releasing your click until you are done moving. Then a picker won't display.