@erinriley said in Windy launches "Observation vs. Forecast":

I'd like to see gusts reported constantly too.

Another day, and storm Gareth. Official Malin Head data 40-57 knots. Windy reports 39 knots, no gust. This morning at 9am it was 16-48 knots ! Gusts are important and should be reported if available.

The 3 different arrows are layered on top of each other, it would be good to be able to disable the swell or have a hierarchy of wind then waves then swell, or if they are going to get in the way of each other, just make them parallel to each other.

The text of the forecast is also a bit on the small side for a 5.5" screen.

yeah, I was thinking specifically about sailing yachts where a gust could blow out a spinnaker etc.

Would it be possible to add wave height and maximum wave height to the buoy data?

Thank you for your replies. I see there is a new interface and a new Windy app update came to me this morning that shows gusts for a few stations, but not for Mace Head and others. I think it would be great if wind gusts could be included even if there is a less than 10 knot difference as for mariners, I feel this makes a difference in sea state and it is just nice to see a maximum wind gust in the 60 knot range as it was on Friday morning.

Thanks for your help, I'll be checking out this new interface today.

Oh, that is confusing. The website showed it was forecast to the right of the current time and reported to the left but I'm not seeing the same interface as you.

So then the main issue now seems to be that there is no reported wind gusts.

I'm aware the weather picker is for forecasts.

I'm just going by the 2 speeds shown in the graph (not forecast section). There are 2 speeds shown one on top of each other. Isn't that wind speed and gust?

The reported data is different to the met Eirann reported data.

I'm noticing that windfinder is wrong too so the data source must be the issue.

Wind reporting for weather stations is in error. I haven't scanned every weather station but I am taking the Republic of Ireland weather stations as their data is easily accessible.

e.g. Mace Head, West coast of Ireland.

The official data from Met Eireann is available as a csv file as "Yesterday's Weather"

Time Wind knots Wind Gust Knots
00:00 26 36
01:00 29 37
02:00 32 44
03:00 32 45
04:00 32 45
05:00 37 50
06:00 42 57
07:00 44 64
08:00 45 63
09:00 43 57
10:00 37 53
11:00 34 50
12:00 34 50
13:00 37 57
14:00 36 56
15:00 30 46
16:00 36 48
17:00 37 53
18:00 37 51
19:00 43 56
20:00 37 57
21:00 45 64
22:00 46 59
23:00 48 59

As you can see at 07:00, the wind was 44-64 knots. Windy reported the wind as 34-44.7 knots, and the errors continued everywhere I looked. That is a BIG problem.

I sure hope you can fix this, as this is crucial if you are wanting to have community/personal weather stations included too.