@Ondřej-Šutera I do understand. I just thought that these are relatively small changes.

I am also slightly worried that I might not be the target user for this app. I've been a subscriber for more than a year now and always wondered why it takes so many taps to get to information that I need. I waited, because I was sure this was so obvious to developers, that things would get fixed/improved soon.

But it seems that it is not obvious to your product team that users want to launch the app and see their preferred forecast without tapping multiple times, which worries me. If I were to design a weather app, that would be my #1 use case scenario.

Thank you, and I hope you will consider my suggestions.

@Ondřej-Šutera said in Windy keeps switching to ECMWF:

you probably don't have turned 4 days forecast on at startup

Thank you! That is a helpful suggestion and I can save at least one tap by enabling that.

As for MBLUE being available everywhere (in the widgets) and the ability to set/remember the default model, can I please ask that you add those to the feature queue?

I'm hoping we won't end this discussion and simply forget about this.

@Ondřej-Šutera Using the GPS for my start-up location is a great suggestion! Have you tried it? I'm happy to provide a screenshot of how the app starts up 🙂:

I will draw your attention to the fact that while the app does indeed start in the correct GPS location, it does not show me the forecast. I have to tap the "Home" icon to see anything about the weather forecast, and that only shows me the multi-day forecast.

The widgets suggestion is also interesting. Have you actually tried it? 😎 The widget does not show the MBLUE model.

Ok, if I may make a humble suggestion, then. The reason why I pay for Windy is to quickly check the weather (I know this sounds obvious, but apparently it isn't?). When I launch Windy I get this:

This doesn't give me the weather. It shows a picture of Europe, but what I want to know is whether it will rain later today. So, I have to tap the "Home" icon to get to this:

This is somewhat better, but it still doesn't tell me if I'll get water on my head later today when biking. So, I click the forecast to get this:

We are now past three taps in the app and I have a forecast! Yay! The problem is, this forecast shows no rain today, while it's raining outside my window. MBLUE did predict the rain, ECMWF did not. In other words, what I have on my screen isn't useful. I have to tap twice more to switch to MBLUE.

So, after finding and launching the app we are now up to four (precise) taps just to see the weather. In a weather app.

I would respectfully submit that this is a problem worth solving and a possible area for improvement :-)

@idefix37 I'm opening the app as an app, not as a widget.

@Ondřej-Šutera I'm not sure what you mean by "forecast detail". I'd like to use MBLUE as The Model, period. So, for the main forecast displayed after I hit the home icon (not sure why I need to tap the home icon, but anyway), and for the forecast that appears after I tap the main forecast. Also for all widgets.

I just want to switch the default model — surely this must be possible?

I am trying to use a different forecast model (MBLUE), as ECMWF has been pretty poor lately at predicting precipitation. But I can't find a way to convince Windy to remember my choice. It always keeps switching to ECMWF after restart.

I did try the (found in forums) "Settings | Start-up layer and location | Use last overlay" thing and it did not help. I still always get ECMWF.

How do I switch the default model?