@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 :)

Maybe this issue should be in a separate thread, not the version 19 announcement?

@Korina

Great news. Let me know if I can assist here if necessary?

The NZ radar is available free on the https://www.rainviewer.com/weather-radar-map-live.html site.

@kbsali said in List of finished Windy Plugins:

Hi @ivo

thanks! :)
I have asked them on several occasions but never got an answer.
But to be honnest, I don't think they would complain : they use the plugin on their live videos now to present where the boats are! :)

Really? Congratulations!

What a great result for you and the Windy community :)

Yes this bug has been noted by the developer.

Please see the last few posts of the following thread to monitor this issue:

https://community.windy.com/topic/9250/list-of-finished-windy-plugins/18?_=1606155070162

@idefix37 said in List of finished Windy Plugins:

@kbsali
Thank you again for your boat tracker plugin. It works fine, but I have a small issue on Mac using Chrome: All icons on UI disappear when I use your plugin (and only your)

I've seen the same issue sometimes, and i'm Chrome and Windows 10.

Also other users are starting to post about this issue elsewhere in the forum too.

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 :)

@jmh2002
Hi, you have just been mistaken by the title of the topic with is not clear :)

Yes that's right.

@idefix37 I didn't know of other types of "compare" features that's why i wasn't more specific. Anyway, if possible, change the topic's title to something less misleading. I can't do that anymore. Thx.

Done :)

@Yves70

You are right. I have edited my post. In fact we are talking about the "How To Use The "Observation vs Forecast" Feature" (which I also wrote about in the FAQ, hence my mistake).

Thanks for picking up my error :)

@idefix37 said in Did something change with the "compare" feature?:

@ivo
I use it regularly too.
In addition, now the Observation vs forecast feature shows just few hours of past forecast. When previously, the past forecast was shown over 2 or 3 days. Frankly 2 or 3 hours are not enough to choose the best model for a location.

Agreed. I use it too, as well as suggest it to Windy users here, and I even wrote a post in the FAQ about it last year:

How To Use The "Observation vs Forecast" Feature:
https://community.windy.com/topic/9425/how-to-use-the-observation-vs-forecast-feature

Also regarding push notifications from the Windy app, the app needs to be allowed to run in the background to be able to push the notifications.

Unfortunately many Android phone manufacturers have a very aggressive policy of killing apps in the background to improve the phone's battery life. It's a major problem for many different app developers.

Please see the following link for more information:

https://dontkillmyapp.com/problem
https://dontkillmyapp.com/

@rittels said in Day-night terminator plugin:

@jmh2002

You can now:

https://www.windy.com/plugins/windy-plugin-day-night?lat=-42.5&lng=146.3&date=2020-11-18T06:00Z

Thanks that's great, but I guess this is custom code for your plugin(s) ?

I was hoping there might be a standard that would work with all the Windy Plugins so that I can make URL Favourites in my browser that would both open the location as well as the correct plugin. eg, something like this:

(I used a similar format as with other layers, eg: https://www.windy.com/-Rain-thunder-rain?rain,-36.851,174.768,5,i:pressure)

to give me this:

https://www.windy.com/plugins/windy-plugin-day-night,-36.851,174.768,5,i:pressure

That doesn't quite work but does get me close, displaying both the right location and opening the plugins sidebar at the same time (see screenshot).

Combined with rearranging the plugins, so that the ones I like most are at the top (like you suggested in the other thread) that's a work around for the moment I suppose.

But I still think it would be great if this worked in a standard way in Windy for all plugins.

It would also be very helpful to be able to give a complete link to another person whereby one click of the URL opens everything as desired.

Sorry for getting a bit off topic in your Day-night thread :)

Thanks again.