Any ideas here? Looks like west of about 16W long. stopped being updated around 0400 UTC?

Thanks!

I’ve seen several suggestions here relating to difficulties with the sizes of fonts and other elements.

I have a request that is related, and perhaps worth thinking about as a different approach.

I too am dealing with changes in my vision as I age, but I still crank up monitors to max resolution and just use reading glasses. But I think that there is an underlying assumption that doesn’t get questioned, which is that people are either on a device using an app, or using a web browser - and a browser means a desktop machine or laptop with a significant pixel count and density.

Every time I switch from the iOS app to a mobile browser on my iPad, honestly, I like the browser experience more than the app. There is just “more” information available. It’s not always what I always want, especially on a phone, but on a tablet it’s pretty close.

But the other browser I have used occasionally is… the one in my car. Of all the games and sound effects and “entertainment” available, the browser will give me weather radar (via Windy). This is actually a safety feature. I can’t think of any other reason to use the browser in the car.

And I think there will be more and more of them.

And here is the problem: it probably doesn’t report itself as a mobile device, but even if it did, it gets the visual elements sized as if it were on a desktop. And that makes it a lot more difficult (and hence, less safe) to use. I don’t need to read the meteogram, but the base navigational icons don’t work.

So my request - suggestion is this: from a previous thread, I know that you have little flexibility to modify this without some work. However, there are browsers everywhere, or thin apps that are really built on browser tech. The most significant way to increase the range of devices on which Windy works well is to address the ability to simplify and re-scale the interface. This also increases accessibility, which will also continue to be important.

Thanks for listening, and I hope some day I’ll have a bookmark to bring up Windy radar and winds in a usable configuration as I see a storm ahead of me on the road.

@Fox-Lies
I was looking at this thread with somewhat the same complaint, but just in case Fox Lies sees this: iOS has a great feature accessible under Settings>Accessibility>Zoom that might be what you’re looking for.

I use it often with my iPhone.

Re: Satellite imagery broken.

Thanks again for all the effort here, I understand when using outside data sources things change, and it’s a struggle to always keep up...

I’d written before that the imagery in the Northern Hemisphere west of about 1yºW seems to not update as I believe it had been - scrolling through the data, it still seems to that about 20-25 minutes before “now” there are no updates. Previously, there was a contrast at that longitude with the imagery to the east, which did update until the present minute.

I’ve noticed today that that now none of this imagery seems to update more recently than that same 20-25 minutes. Also, perhaps related, the eastern images seem to be missing a layer; the resolution over Europe seems markedly lacking due to that west of the line. I would conjecture that there is a problem with the pipeline and/or possibly an outage of the data feed on the east side as well.

I understand the challenges, as I said. I’d very much appreciate knowing whether I am misinterpreting this, or whether it’s a known problem. I do also understand you may not be able to fix everything, but I’d feel better knowing if “it’s just me”.

Thanks, again!

@idefix37 Ha! Thank you - that makes things a bit more clear...

I think that 16°W boundary might be explained by that reference, it seemed like this was probably based on a particular satellite view.

I’m not sure the data questions are, though.

What I see over the last 36 hours or so is that the data for my region (visible, 42°N, 72°W) seems now just to not be current, consistently 25-30m ago the animation “freezes”. So now that I know you have a data pipeline doing some rather intensive processing of the data, I wonder if it’s “behind”? I also noticed an update a few minutes ago while looking at the page, and it appeared that it may have been another frame, but stamped still from about half an hour ago. I wonder if something is happening to exceed processing resources, or you’re still catching up from some point over the weekend, or a node offline, etc.

By the way, that reference was to interpolation of the imagery - I does seem to be updated every minute, so I assume that enhancement was released for mobile (at least, iOS), and many thanks for that!

Just to be clear: I assume the satellites are geosynchronous - or is there timing to grab or compute a consistent perspective from several of them? Also, I’m wondering if I see what seems to be an illusion of a z-axis, or whether I actually am able to discern different layers of clouds? It must be that the resolution is very high, or maybe a side-effect of the interpolation?

Very much appreciate the info! Thanks for everything!
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@idefix37 thanks! Not sure you made any changes... but it’s mostly working again.

Not entirely, though - it still seems to have some gaps. Nothing like a few hours, and maybe those have always been there and I just hadn’t noticed.

I also have to point out that I wouldn’t be focused on the imagery if it weren’t so beautiful. This data source is amazing.

Looks like it came to life again at around 1330Z until 1510Z. Maybe something “stuck” somewhere....

Any ideas here? Looks like west of about 16W long. stopped being updated around 0400 UTC?

Thanks!