Prior to Starlink using windy offshore for boats was impossible. It used too much data.

However, now it is possible but you have to keep online to view windy and switch between different times / days.

If there was a way to download a set of data and then view it offline, that would be wonderful. We could then open Starlink, download 5 days of wind data and log off Starlink.

Then we could trawl through the wind forecasts carefully, looking over it, relooking over it and making our passage adjustments. This is how traditional weather apps for offshore sailors work such as the “offshore” app by predicting wind. And it’s that app which most currently use offshore. But wouldn’t it be great if we could do it in Windy. Perhaps a premium member function.

Regards

Tim

@Suty

+1 please. The better sounding via plugins is excellent and thermal maps but an updraft velocity would be amazing. A little like Rasp in the UK.

Windy used to display live weather from ships taking part in the Voluntary Observing Ship program. Does anyone know why this is missing now? It was very useful.

@idefix37

Yeah I know. Can’t resize easily on my phone without faffing around a lot. Odd the windy devs have such a basic community forum. Plenty out there that could handle all the basic forum functions on various platforms.

Oh hang on. It’s all showing again. Plenty of shops in Biscay reporting. For the last week I couldn’t see any.

Thanks. Yeah I know they’ve kept the sea stations which are usually Rigs, but not too long ago they showed live wind from ships via the VOS scheme (Voluntary Observing Ships).

Perhaps Windy can’t get a license to use the data any more. It’s a shame as it is tremendously useful to see if the forecast is accurate to the reported weather offshore.

Recently I noticed how “reported wind” from ships was missing.

Has this data now been removed from the app?