Thanks for this! I am unable to pull up the satellite archive on desktop, any thoughts on how to resolve this issue, or is it a new update coming out soon? My settings show I am running version 37.2.5 in Microsoft Edge on Windows 10. Additionally, will this be added to the iOS version?

Finally, a shameless plug that I'd still love to see total precipitable water added as one of the offered parameters. It would be very useful for forecasting atmospheric river events and spring thunderstorms in my region.

Hello WIndy team! NOAA is planning on launching a new weather model (RRFS) to replace both the HRRR and NAM late 2023. It is operating provisionally so far with a domain that covers the dame domain as the HRRR, but once it is operational the domain is expected to cover all of North America.

Is Windy planning on switching mesoscale modeling in North America from the HRRR and NAM, which will likely be sunset after the RRFS launches, to this new model? I am hoping so. This would also be a win for Canadian, Latin American, and Caribbean users.

Details: https://gsl.noaa.gov/focus-areas/unified_forecast_system/rrfs and https://dtcenter.org/sites/default/files/events/2021/23-carley-rrfs-overview-srw-app-training.pdf

@Ondřej-Šutera Adding my support for total precipitable water. I would find this to be incredibly useful.

The new updates are, as always, great and add a lot of value to Windy. I'm once again asking you to add total precipitable water as one of the parameters offered for display. It's a great way to visualize moisture plumes and whatnot, such as this one later this week where moisture sourced from the Caribbean will be bringing rain to Norway and the United Kingdom.

This sort of thing is critical for severe weather and atmospheric river forecasting and the current humidity and precipitation parameters don't capture it as well as total precipitable water does.

@javier-ferres Total precipitable water would be the perfect way to do this. Several of us have been asking for it for years, but it currently does not exist on Windy.

Hi all,

I love Windy and find it very useful for my forecasting. It is missing a very important parameter, however, which is total precipitable water. This measures atmospheric moisture content throughout the entire column instead of at specific altitudes, as in RH and dew point and is helpful in tracking impacts from atmospheric rivers, decaying tropical systems, etc.

Most models have this parameter included in their output dataset. Please consider adding it to Windy to improve the usefulness of the product to meteorologists.

Thanks,
Mark Ingalls
Energy meteorologist
Surrey, British Columbia

@Annual-Salvador-Rally The colors represent the strength of the parameter (wind, waves, etc.) same as on the map.

@RHsurf It costs money to maintain all these systems.

Still waiting for Total Precipitable Water

@leo-idt +1. I don't need smoothed data, I need actual data.

Still waiting for Total Precipitable Water

@Suty Being able to filter out low dbz returns could help clean up the display in cases of ground clutter and also to filter out returns from distant radars that are looking into the upper level of a storm.

In areas with good radar coverage, a composite like you guys offer will often (properly) show heavy rain near the thunderstorm's core but also an apron of light rain that is actually a different radar looking at the upper level of the storm.

I'm attaching an image from a non-Windy source that illustrates this phenomenon. It occurs on all composite weather radar displays, which is what Windy has. In this case the user would set the filter to remove the lighter returns ahead of the four storm systems circled.

@Polina-Nozdrina I'm very disappointed that Total Precipitable Water was again not included despite years of several people requesting it.

@javier-ferres Total precipitable water would be the perfect way to do this. Several of us have been asking for it for years, but it currently does not exist on Windy.

@andrew98 The National Blend of Models isn't a weather model, it essentially treats multiple other models (GFS ens, ECMWF ens, etc.) as a single ensemble model. As such the "deterministic" output is essentially just an ensemble mean and isn't very useful in forecasting. The NBM's value comes in probability outputs, such as calling out a 15% chance of a high end event. This sort of data would be hard to communicate on Windy.

The RRFS is not operational yet and NOAA had some setbacks on developing it. In this "experimental" phase it can be erratic in how often or how well it runs, making it difficult to use. The latest estimate for going operational that I heard was during the second half of 2025. It will eventually replace the HRRR and NAM, but does not run reliably yet.

@xd1936 Hello! Thanks for writing this script. I recently used it to get a friend's station on CWOP (which Windy pulls from). I hope you don't mind me writing this guide on how I did it: https://ingallswx.com/2024/10/31/simple-guide-to-forward-your-weather-station-data-to-multiple-sites-online/

@idefix37 Ideally the devs would be able to work toward something able to work natively in the app too.

@idefix37 +1 for pressure gradients, this would be awesome! The chart you display is good, though perhaps have two user entries for the chosen locations with both an associated search function or custom map pin function. I would use this for multiple regions in the US and Canada during the winter.

@cmarin73 I am a meteorologist and I agree entirely with @Wheats. The general public evidently does not realize the time-consuming analysis that goes into producing front maps that are of acceptable quality.

Hi Windy team! Thanks again for the awesome service. I included Windy in my list of weather apps that I use as a meteorologist. I thought you might be interested in the article.

https://ingallswx.com/2024/10/08/five-weather-apps-that-i-find-useful-as-a-meteorologist/

Also, please add the total precipitable water parameter! It's the only thing the app is missing in my opinion.