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@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.

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 :)

WOW that's awesome!!!

THANKS to Ivo, Milan, Tomas, Martin, Jakub, Jindra, and all of 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)

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

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

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 :)

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.

Thank you for your post. Unfortunately the place names are not controlled by Windy.

Please see the following posts about how the map data for Windy is sourced and displayed from www.openstreetmap.org:

https://community.windy.com/topic/4649/how-to-correct-errors-in-the-base-maps

https://community.windy.com/topic/5564/disputed-territories-on-windy

Please also note: For every language, a different place name label can be displayed, so please choose your correct language and data display.

Further discussion of place name and language issues or disputes should be directed to the OpenStreetMap Forum here: https://forum.openstreetmap.org/index.php > scroll down & select > users: (the relevant country for your dispute and/or question)

In the case of a political dispute please leave such topics out of the Windy forum and instead focus on the discussion of weather.

Thank you :)

So gentleman (and women), you now have a definitive reply regarding the positions of both Windy as well as OpenStreetMap on this type of situation so I hope that this is the end of the matter on this forum.

I understand that this remains a contentious issue from different perspectives, but Windy is primarily a weather site, so once again let's leave political topics out of the Windy forum please and focus on the discussion of weather.

Windy also does not wish to be a battleground for these type of disputes.

Further discussion of these type of issues should be directed to the OpenStreetMap Forum here: https://forum.openstreetmap.org/index.php > scroll down & select > users: (the relevant country for your dispute and/or question)

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

There have been other suggestions, please use the search feature, thank you.

MODERATOR: just an advance reminder for all users posting in this topic:

Political Topics & Posts are NOT Acceptable in the Windy Forum.
https://community.windy.com/topic/8680/political-topics-posts-are-not-acceptable

Let's be sure to keep this topic polite and respectful please.

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 :)

This is not controlled by Windy. Please see the following posts and direct your issue to www.openstreetmap.org instead:

https://community.windy.com/topic/5564/disputed-territories-on-windy

https://community.windy.com/topic/4649/how-to-correct-errors-in-the-base-maps

Let's leave political topics out of the Windy forum please and focus on the discussion of weather.

Thanks a lot for trying to provide some type of hurricane tracking and prediction, I think this will be very appreciated by a lot of users.

Possibly you are referring the launch of Windy Premium. You can find the thread for this topic here:

We are launching Windy Premium - even better forecast for just price of a lunch

https://community.windy.com/topic/11552/we-are-launching-windy-premium-even-better-forecast-for-just-price-of-a-lunch

Unfortunately this is not controlled by Windy. Please see the following posts and instead direct your issue to www.openstreetmap.org where the map data for Windy is sourced from:

https://community.windy.com/topic/5564/disputed-territories-on-windy

https://community.windy.com/topic/4649/how-to-correct-errors-in-the-base-maps

Also let's leave political topics out of the Windy forum please and focus on the discussion of weather.

Thank you for your post. Unfortunately the place names are not controlled by Windy.

Please see the following posts about how the map data for Windy is sourced and displayed from www.openstreetmap.org:

https://community.windy.com/topic/4649/how-to-correct-errors-in-the-base-maps

https://community.windy.com/topic/5564/disputed-territories-on-windy

Please also note: For every language, a different place name label can be displayed, so please choose your correct language and data display.

Further discussion of place name and language issues or disputes should be directed to the OpenStreetMap Forum here: https://forum.openstreetmap.org/index.php > scroll down & select > users: (the relevant country for your dispute and/or question)

In the case of a political dispute please leave such topics out of the Windy forum and instead focus on the discussion of weather.

Thank you :)