@ivo said in Would you like to receive Windy Alerts as push notifications to your mobile device?:

Dear users

We prepare slight overhaul of 2 years old "Windy Alerts" feature. If you have any ideas, or thoughts, now is the time to let us know.

And btw, would you like to receive Windy Alerts as push notifications to your mobile device?

Ivo

Yes, definitely this option would be nice to have.

And I also think that it would be extremely useful to also be able to have a Windy Alert Notification for CAP Alerts / Weather Warnings too.

In fact I wrote a post about it (together with some other suggestions for the Weather Warnings Layer) in April 2019:

https://community.windy.com/topic/8268/windy-alert-notification-for-cap-alerts-weather-warnings

So if for example there is a flood warning issued (or sudden snow/ice - winter is coming) then the user will receive a push notification to instantly warn them about these conditions.

I think this is a huge safety feature.

THANKS :)

@ivo

Also a common request here from the Community is the ability to be be to set multiple alerts for the same location.

WOW that's awesome!!!

THANKS to Ivo, Milan, Tomas, Martin, Jakub, Jindra, and all of the Windy Team!

Political Topics & Posts are NOT Acceptable in the Windy Forum.

Users posting about such topics will not be tolerated. Users will be Banned and unacceptable posts/topics deleted if necessary.

The Windy Forum is a place for friendly discussion about Windy.com and Weather related topics. Here at the Windy community we have international users from all over the world and therefore all users must be respectful and considerate to each other.

Thank you :)

THANKS for all your hard work Ivo, Marek, Milan, Filip and Martin (and others), it is very appreciated.

Windy has a feature called "Compare'.

This feature enables you to Compare all of the available Forecast Models to each other during the next few days.

This feature works with all of the Models that Windy uses (location dependant): ECMWF, GFS, NEMS, ICON-EU, AROME, NAM and enables the user to Compare the Forecast across all of the available Models to try and understand what pattern has the highest likelihood of occuring (eg: 3 models forecast Rain, 1 model doesn't)

To use this feature:

• Open Windy to the desired location, eg: Prague, CZH
  https://www.windy.com/50.067/14.466?rain,48.716,14.817,7,m:e2Bagzh
• Click on the Map at your chosen location to show the Forecast
  (or just open directly from Windy Favourites or Browser URL)
• I also selected the Rain Layer for this example, but it's not essential
• Select Compare at bottom centre
• All available Models will now be displayed enabling them to be easily Compared by choosing a period in the Timeline and viewing the weather conditions from each Model in a vertical orientation

Just a note to our international Windy users (especially those from native english speaking countries) regarding the 'girls' wording in earlier posts:

Please bear in mind that Windy was founded and is based in Prague, Czech Republic, and the Founder and most of the Team (and many of the Moderators as well) speak english as a second language, just like many of the Windy users here too.

Therefore sometimes the small nuances of words and language used may not always carry the same weight or depth of meaning (either positive or negative) as they might do in other languages, cultures, or countries.

As was mentioned, at this time the main support is indeed provided by two female Team members, @Korina and @petra-pik

Thank you for your understanding and your support of Windy and the Windy Team :)

Windy has a feature called "Observation vs Forecast" which was announced here in Jan 2019:
https://community.windy.com/topic/75...orecast?page=1

This feature enables you to compare what the "Weather Station Observed" with what the various "Forecast Models Predicted" during the last few days.

This feature works with all of the Models that Windy uses (location dependant): ECMWF, GFS, NEMS, ICON-EU, AROME, NAM and enables the user to check how often the Forecast Models 'got it right'.

To use this feature:

• Open Windy to the desired location, eg:
  https://www.windy.com/-Outdoor-map-map?map,29.237,-62.540,5
• Select Reported Wind at bottom right to display all Weather Stations
  (I also used the Outdoor Map Layer for clarity, but it's not essential)
• Select the Weather Station, eg: I chose Bermuda Airport
• Select the Forecast Model, at bottom left
• Select the desired period in the Timeline
• The grey floating box displays the Observation vs Forecast
  (and some basic colour coding to indicate Right / Ok / Wrong)

A general reminder for all users:

Windy does not create any forecast data but instead only visualises forecast and actual data received from various third party providers.

The source of the data is displayed on Windy.com and users are welcome to check and verify the source data for themselves.

ALSO, let's be sure to keep this topic polite and respectful please.

AND, whilst this topic does have a political component (one of many components regarding this topic) posts focused solely on political matters, conspiracy theories, and/or personal attacks against other users are NOT acceptable.

Thank you :)

@coldfinger said in too much of everything i don't want:

can you not just let me choose the aspects i want?? do i really have to see the sea swell and no2 and all the rest?? let me set the defaults that interest PLEASE!!

The Layer Menu is completely customisable. You can turn On the Layers that interest you, and turn off the Layers that don't.

@tz said in Weather radar for New Zealand:

@jmh2002 Rainviewer has only 1-hour data and we have the same. Yes, we use their API for the access.
MetserviceNZ has also ~7 minute data, but for high price.

@TZ

Ok thanks, previously the 10min updates were working at Rainviewer. Pity :(

@tz said in Weather radar for New Zealand:

@onetrev Hi, I did, wrote them, negotiated...we have offer from them, but it is soooooooo much EXPENSIVE that it is not possible to buy the data.
I hope that one day something gets changed, but now NZ Metservice think about Windy as their competitor. Unfortunately they has monopoly for radar data, they do not want us to display it unless we pay "their potential loss" and they estimated it really high. We can not do anything with it.

Thanks for clarifying the situation @tz

However by comparison rainviewer.com has great radar data for NZ.

Do you think they pay this really high cost with MetServiceNZ?

And I thought Windy used the rainviewer api for this radar data anyway?

Changes made in Open Street Maps do not occur instantly in Windy and will instead be updated periodically in the future.

Thank you for your understanding :)

Thank you for the contribution :)

I imagine that this plugin may create a lot of interest once the marine users become aware of it.

I look forward to future progress.

If you need some specific help then apart from the Windy developers there are also other plugin developers such as @rittels who may be able to provide some assistance too.

@korina said in Weather radar doesn't work:

@jmh2002 Yes, the NZ radar should be back online in a while.

@Korina I can confirm that the NZ radar is back online, thank you :)

But unfortunately the Windy radar image quality is still degraded like before.

i've also included a screenshot for Europe from both Windy and RainViewer to make a comparison, and it's possible to see that they are almost the same.

But comparing the NZ screenshots it's clear to see that the Windy image has much less definition.

Can this please be investigated by the development team?

Thank you :)

Windy Europe (for comparison):

RainViewer Europe (for comparison):

Windy NZ:

RainViewer NZ:

MetService NZ (original source):

@korina said in Weather radar doesn't work:

@jmh2002 @starwatcha Hello, we will try to bring the NZ radar online back again as soon as we can. Nevertheless, at the moment we cannot offer a different radar source such as Metoffice.

Thank you Korina. Rainviewer is down too.

So I was only mentioning MetService to inform that the problem is not with the real original source.

@jmh2002 said in Weather radar doesn't work:

Radar in New Zealand has now showing "No Data" all day.

The original source, MetService NZ, is still working.

Still down after 3 days ;(

The original source, MetService NZ, is still working.

Radar in New Zealand has now showing "No Data" all day.

The original source, MetService NZ, is still working.

@korina said in Weather radar doesn't work:

@starwatcha Hi, currently we use a reliable radar provider for NZ radar, however if you have a better source with accessible API, we would be glad for suggestion.

Is it correct that Windy uses RainViewer's API?

We have an intense rain system passing at the moment so here's another set of comparison screenshots.

It's also possible to see that the Australian Radar does not have these lines and the unclear / poorly defined image.

Playing the radar shows the NZ radar image becoming properly defined and then going back to these lines again.

Something is definitey not right, and given the other two sources appear to be ok maybe it is some type of problem with the processing of the data on the Windy side?

THANKS for looking into it :)

Windy:

RainViewer:

MetService NZ (original Source):

@Korina

I raised issues about the NZ Radar in the earlier thread titled New Zealand Radar Service.

At the time I posted screenshots comparing the image being displayed by Windy, Rainviewer, and MetService NZ (the Source) which clearly indicated problems with Windy.

Similar problems continue now.

You can find that thread and that post here:
https://community.windy.com/topic/10998/new-zealand-radar-service/20?page=1

It would be really great to get this properly resolved please.

THANKS :)