Thank you for your post, however please note:

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

Additionally:

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

As @idefix37 mentioned, there are different models, each of which interprets the weather data using their own methods, and this can result in different forecasts.

As @idefix37 mentioned, the available models automatically change based on the forecast location. Not all models cover all parts of the world.

See examples below:

London:

Sydney:

Krakow:

Using the 'Picker' (click anywhere on the screen) the Forecast Wind Speed and Direction will be displayed.

The Picker can be dragged anywhere on the screen.

If you turn on Reported Wind (at the bottom right) the Reported Wind Speed and Direction will be displayed from every reporting station.

Hovering over these Stations will show a pop up with more details.

Particle Animation can also be turned to show animated wind arrows.

Additionally, the colour scale can be customised from the settings if you prefer different colours.

Hope this helps :)

@stephanclaes said in Windy predicts extreme wind, temperature and rain:

Great update. I work on Disaster Risk Reduction in Africa, and have your app on my phone for surfing purposes. Before official weather sources were even talking about a potential cyclone, me & my colleagues were already tracking and preparing for Cyclone Idai through your app, which indeed turned out to be devastating. Keep up the good work, great app!

Nice practical example of Windy in action :)

@antinucci I was also thinking that a nice extra for you might be to create an Alert so that you get an advance email notification when good fishing/boating conditions are forecast to occur over the next week or so at your various locations?

To do this, open your Favourites, click Create Alert, and then set the criteria such as Wind, Waves, and Temperature, etc, and the Duration settings too of course (unfortunately there is no moon phase in Windy, yet).

Hope this helps :)

Ok thanks @idefix37 I have added a new thread for this subject to the Feedback and Suggestions here: https://community.windy.com/topic/8732/add-separate-colour-scale-for-sea-temperatures/2

@TomSlavkovsky please check and reply :)

It has been reported that there is no separate colour scales for Sea Temperature and Air Temperature, and it has been suggested that separate scales would be beneficial 'as the variations of sea temperature are much smaller compared to the air temperature variations'.

@idefix37 said in modify layers colors - sea surface temperature:

@owen-t
It’s still possible to modify the « Sea surface temperature » layer colors. This can be done by « Temperature » setting in the list. But this setting alters « Air temperature » and « Sea temperature » in the same way, which is not very practical.

The « Air temperature » scale should cover a range of -70°C to 50°C, while the « Sea temperature » scale should cover only a range of about -2°C to 33°C. So, with a specific color setting of the « Sea temperature », this would give a much more detailed scale of the « Sea temperature ».

@idefix37 said in Colors for temperature scales tailored for offshore fishing...:

@jmh2002
It should be nice to have a separate setting for sea temperature as the variations of sea temperature are much smaller compared to the air temperature variations. When zooming with the current setting there is almost no colour gradient on sea surface temperature layer.

Perhaps this can please be considered by the Windy team?

THANKS :)

Thank you! @idefix37 :)

I think this is what @antinucci wants, maybe with some small tweaks.

Regarding Windy using the same colour template / scale for both sea temperature and air temperature, it seems like this should be added to the feature requests?

Do you know if separate temperature scales have already been requested?