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@idefix37 said in When are 15 day forecasts coming?:

@Ken

The way the rain or wind accumulation is displayed in the browser version (with 2 sliders) is not possible on a small screen. It is used on iPad with the mobile app because it has a larger screen.
Then a 15-day forecast has very low reliability at a local scale. This is not such a big shortcoming.

By the way, when you say

I was referring to the accumulation layers of rain and wind as in the screenshots below.

No, in your first message you were not referring to these layers and you modified some of your posts later.

@idefix37 not being able to have two sliders on a small screen is understandable. But is there a way to at least add a 15-day option at the bottom that we can tap on (in addition to the existing 12hrs, 24hrs, 2 days, 4 days, and 8 days option?

I fully realise a 15-day forecast period has lower accuracy but if you consider the accuracy that low, why even have it on the desktop version in the first place then?

I would've thought the whole point of having an app and website like Windy was to show the raw forecasts from the models, even though it's well known that accuracy is significantly lower beyond about 5 days. Hence why so many weather websites out there show model forecasts out to their full forecast length,

As for my 1st post, I edited it to say "accumulation" to make it clearer and avoid any confusion.

I also said "accumulation" in my 2nd post (my initial reply to your post) which I didn't edit at all if I recall correctly. There's no edit history to that post that I can see. Refer to above screenshot.

I edited my subsequent posts to make them clearer.

@Filip_K said in Please extend 18z ACCESS-C out to its full 42hrs:

Hi @Ken, You are right, we're currently using only 36 hours from the forecast because all runs are at least 36 hours long. We might use full 42 hours from 18z run in the future, but I unfortunately can't give You any estimate.

Thanks for the response!

@Caefix I totally agree with you there.

All that time and effort put into the animation feature only for it to be abandoned feels like a big waste to me.

And yes, the animation feature in Windy was much smoother than those in any other website or app I know of. Not only that, those smooth animations could show both both rain and thunder (the lightning symbols) together - something that no other website or app I'm aware of, can do.

Such a unique feature wasted.

@Suty said in Can't remove location temperature labels anymore:

@Ken May I ask about the workaround that was available for the old interface?

The procedure for the workaround is described in the links I included in my original post @Suty i.e.

https://community.windy.com/topic/16446/permanently-install-plugin

https://community.windy.com/topic/10006/disable-display-of-temperature/5

@Suty there are actually many people who use the animated video feature judging by the sheer number of the animations which automatically get posted in the "Your animations" thread on here every single day:

https://community.windy.com/topic/8191/your-animations

Hi,
The sounding graph does not say what time the graph is for.
It take more steps now to get the graph.
Each rime i need to select a new time and get the sounding it is tooany steps.
Can you please keep the old way of getting the sounding on the mobile app as it was more intuitive and useful.
Also, make the zoom more user friendly.
I am a paraglider pilot and need the sounding info at low altitudes.

@Ondřej-Šutera thanks for that. Yes I think it'd be a really handy feature to have since I think there are often times that many people want to see how much rainfall is forecast to fall today, tomorrow, the day after, etc.

And a 24 hour max lightning feature would also act as an extremely useful thunderstorm map for today, tomorrow, etc. I think you already use this technique for your wind accumulation option - if so, you could just use the same coding (but for lightning instead) without having to reinvent the wheel.

@Ondřej-Šutera Ah that's awesome! It worked. Thanks so much!

@Korina said in Feature request (time controls for Skew-Ts in app):

@Ken Thank you, this is already on our to-do list.

You are a manager
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@idefix37 I think you'll always get those types of people anyway, regardless of how short or long range a forecast is from a model. One of the more classic examples involving thunderstorms and CAPE fields, or localised precipitation on Day 8 from any model.

I think the important part is to add some sort of prominent disclaimer like the one I mentioned in my previous reply cautioning people about that in order to reduce that perception. That's just my view though.

@Korina Hello, I was referring to every run of various models (ECMWF, GFS, ICON, etc) and the fact that the initial forecast data from each run starts becoming available on many websites before the relevant run is finished.

For example, the data for the first few forecast days from the 00z runs of the ECMWF typically start becoming available on various websites from about 06z and the data for all 10 forecast days is typically viewable by about 07z.
Similar principle applies to the 18z, 06z, and 12z runs of the ECMWF, the GFS, ICON, and other models.

I hope that clarifies things.

@korina oh and sorry, one more suggestion before I forget. Not sure if this deserves a separate thread but it would also be extremely useful if there was an optional setting where alerts extend out to 7 or 10 days.

I know accuracy is lower at that type of range but if it was available as an option that could be turned on or off by premium or more advanced users (while keeping the default alerts to 5 days unless the user forces a change) and adding a disclaimer that skill will be lower, I think it would be a great addition.

@ken I wrote SkewT. However, other work has kept me from giving it the love it needs, so I might have to suggest you look at the RadioSonde plugin instead. It's newer, and probably a little more reliable.

Feel free to give me more details in case I can find some time for it though, as I cannot reproduce exactly what you mean.