@Filip_K I was happy to see that the radar was working today when I checked Windy. I was wondering if this might be related to my earlier comment. Thank you for the quick support!

@Filip_K I was told that SMN is being restructured by Argentina’s new government, and we can only expect the quality of its services to decline.

Meteored has clean radar tiles—do you need to license them in order to use them?

https://services-c.meteored.com/img/tiles/viewer/radar/6/21/38/1765971300_reflectividad.png

@filip_k Hi! Thanks for the effort you’ve put into making this work. Much appreciated. It looks like the issue might be related to scraping? which could have broken if the source changed. Do you think it would make sense to reach out to the data providers (SMN or Meteored) to explore a more reliable, structured way to access the data, perhaps via an agreement or official feed?

@Filip_K Excellent, it has been useful today! Thank you

How can we help, this is really annoying, Meteored has the data, maybe they can help?

https://www.meteored.com.uy/radar/

@rittels What else is necessary to implement weather routing? Do you need help?

Argentina radar feed is not working during interesting storm time. is there any official entity responsible that we can contact?

Windy makes their radar information 100x more useful.

Argentina's national weather service has the information in obsolete and inefficient image format:

https://www.smn.gob.ar/radar

I discovered this feature today, and I'm very happy; this, along with weather routing, will make Windy the perfect weather app, making expensive sailing-focused apps obsolete.

Some comments, comparing with the experience using GRIB files:

1. looks like a bigger area than the red square is downloaded? it would be useful to be able to limit the area to reduce data size.

2. it would be good to know in advance the amount of data that will be downloaded (important for remote, satellite communications)

3. download progress bar could include amount downloaded, speed, ETA

Thank you for implementing this!!

@idefix37 The weather station is not reporting temperature and as I said before the thumbup icon is wrong even if that is the case.

In the new compare models view an incorrect (300 degrees) temperature value is displayed as median error (see screenshot) even with a thumsbup icon.

Looks like this happens when the station is not reporting temperature. In any case the thumsbup icon is probably an additional bug.

In my zone ships with weather stations are not common but very useful when they are in the zone while planning a trip, so I would like to know the list of ships that are currently reporting to track their location and know in advance if they will be in the area. Googling the id displayed by Windy worked for some ships but not for the ones that are in my area. I tried to find them in the NOAA list but the IDs are different.
Thank you

@idefix37 Thanks for the explanation but I understand it, my suggestion is to improve the UI/UX to:

1. if model is set to current time reflect when the observed value is old (more than 2 hours) changing how it looks (for example grayed out).

2. When the model does not match current time because user is moving it to the future: hide the observed time or show it as in 1.

@idefix37
First case, station shows NE and partcile animation is E because wind rotated and the last update of the station was more than hour ago (you have to click to see that):

And the second case, just turn on observed wind and move the time slider of the model to the future, nothing changes in the visualization of the station, it is confusing.

@nesro True, that is useful, thank you. However that view does not include rain and temperature. In my opinion, the compare views is very close to being able to display all the information while keeping clarity.

Hi Windy Team and community,

I've noticed a potential area for improvement in how observed wind data is displayed when sliding the timeline. Currently, the arrow indicating wind speed and direction remains the same regardless of whether the time of the observation matches the model time being displayed. This can lead to confusion.

I suggest implementing a visual difference in the wind arrow when:

• The timeline is moved, and the observed data doesn't match the model time.

• The station data is outdated compared to the current model time. This happens with remote (e.g., buoys) and ships very often.

Differentiating these scenarios could improve clarity and usability, perhaps through color changes or a distinct icon.
For example gray color but still keeping the wind speed color as a border.

Thanks for considering this feedback!

I've noticed that wind gust data, a crucial aspect of weather forecasting, seems to be absent in this section. Many community members, in various topics, have pointed out this omission. Some replied it is due to some weather models not containing this information.

However, I believe there's a viable solution to this. For instance, in situations where the ICON model forecasts fewer days than other models, it is still included with empty columns for the missing days. Following this logic, could we not adopt a similar approach for wind gust data? Perhaps we could introduce an option or a switch that allows users to view wind gust information when it is available from certain models, while understanding that it might be absent in others.

This feature would significantly enhance the user experience for those of us who rely heavily on detailed wind information for various purposes. I am sure many in the community would appreciate having this additional layer of data available.

Thank you for your continuous efforts in making Windy a comprehensive and user-friendly weather forecasting tool.

Re: [Sugestion] Include Wind gusts in Compare screen.

@korina There are expensive routing apps, demand is there. If Windy developers try those apps I'm sure they will find how low quality they are and will be motivated to implement the features.

@boatguy54 How do you get weather front now?

Hi, Windy is not only the best weather app, it is probably one of the best software ever created. It is not common to find software that looks good, is easy to use, is full of features, it has everything you can imagine and more and is not buggy. It is polished, didn't find bugs while using it. CPU usage optimization probably needs some love.

Lately software is extremely minimalist and when they add features quality is reduced, Windy is the opposite. Congratulations.

Unfortunately there are a few reasons for sailing use case to use other apps:
1 historical data (see how wind was in the route you did last weekend)
2 GRIB files for off-shore small downloads
3 bathymetry and tides (not sure if it is hidden somewhere in the menu, tidal current is there)
4 weather routing

Being weather routing the hardest to implement feature with probably intense backend processing.

From reading this forum I learnt the reason for 1 and 2 not being supported is license limitations. Can it be solved if we pay more?
And what about weather routing? how hard can it be for the obviously super skilled developers you already have in the team?

Is depressing to use a competitor app that has this features but is the opposite of "polished" and easy to use software. What can we do to help Windy to implement this features?

Thank you