I took a photo of a non-Premium account and my Premium account to compare the rain layer hours.

Both the free and Premium versions provide the same forecast without enabling the hourly forecast in the free version.

What’s the advantage of having a Premium account if I can already see the hourly forecast without activating Premium?

The radar says it's raining, but I have a security camera at the exact location and it shows no rain. Why does this happen?

Will this wind direction affect or delay the arrival of the clouds?

@Suty

The rain radar is working again, what is its source? And how does his analysis work?

@Gkikas-LGPZ said in Can someone explain to me what happened? lots of lightning, the models raining and it didn't even rain:

@mbmpc
The models show TRACES of rain.
So, the probability of rain was low.

Why in Ventusky can you track the lightning in real time and in Windy you can't?

@idefix37 said in If the ecmwf model is the most accurate according to chatgpt and it is making a lot of mistakes, I don't know which one to trust then.:

@mbmpc
If there was a weather model that was accurate enough to predict temperature to the nearest degree, rain to the nearest tenth of a mm, wind to the nearest km/h, and that in every place in the world, Windy would not need to show multiple models.
And what does your screenshot show? That the other models show a forecast with a deviation of 1°C, + max 0.6mm of rain, a very small risk of thunderstorm !
We cannot say what is the best model for your location.

The Observation vs forecast feature could help you by checking a weather station not too far from you location

I'm a layman in this part about meteorology, could you explain this issue of observation and forecasting to me better?

Hidrolândia CE Brazil

@idefix37 said in In my region, radar coverage is not available. Is it possible to tell if a cloud is a storm cloud using satellite images? Are the darker clouds higher in altitude?:

@mbmpc
This means that the 0.6mm of rain is predicted to be cumulated during the 3 last hours. Last 3 hours before the current model time stamp (I can’t tell exactly as you don’t show all the screen).

I'm following the movement of the clouds on the satellite, it seems that this cloud that I highlighted in red is higher and blue is lower, is this like the height of the clouds in the satellite layer?

@idefix37 said in In my region, radar coverage is not available. Is it possible to tell if a cloud is a storm cloud using satellite images? Are the darker clouds higher in altitude?:

@mbmpc
Yes Windy provides satellite imagery in every country almost in real time.
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