In the web view the orientation of the wind barbs in the route planner can be changed unter "more options", but there is no such setting in the app.
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RE: Windy 39 is here. Learn how to masterclass new features
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RE: Windy 39 is here. Learn how to masterclass new features
Very nice, thanks for this version. I use Windy for sailing and the route planning feature is handy, you can see the forecast along the intended track with its change in time. But I have a few problems with it.
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I assume the time shown on top of the forecast data in the yellow box is the intended departure time. When I now tap in the data to place a cursor, the time show on the vertical line is wrong, it even does not increase monotonously from left to right, it jumps randomly.
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The wind direction arrows do not make sense to me. Is it showing absolute wind direction (north up) or is it showing the direction relative to the track (head up). Both variants do not agree with the with the direction shown in the animation
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RE: Windy 39 is here. Learn how to masterclass new features
@Arne-Christensen-3 I have the same problem. I think the wind direction is shown relative to the planned track with the head of boat pointing to the right, somewhat counter intuitive. The arrows are green for down wind and get red for up wind courses. In the web version of windy you can change the orientation of the arrows (barbs) under "more options" but this setting is missing in the app.
Shading of day/night times as in the "normal" forecast would be nice in deed.
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Wrong Tide Forecast for Germany
I just compared the tide forecast of Windy with the forecast with the official german forecast from https://gezeiten.bsh.de/. The latter is also compared to actual measured data and very accurate.
The forecast by windy is pretty much off, the times as well as the heights. Relying on this data can be dangerous. So, IMHO it is better to show no tide data at all than to show wrong data, wrong data is useless and even dangerous. Even if you say the Windy tides are just to get an overview or general picture, what kind overview to you want to get with wrong data?
The data on https://gezeiten.bsh.de may be used by other projects (read the details) you should import them into Windy.
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RE: WearOS App does not show wind forecast!
@MarkNagy Any progress here? I still cannot find wind data in the hourly forecast in the wearos app. Can't be that hard to implement.
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Hard to read/ambigous selection in the UI
When setting up alarms it is very hard to see if an option is checked or unchecked. The UI design/colors is badly chosen. (android app, web as well)
When configuring an alarm the selected notification hours have gray background when selected (at least I think it is like that, I cannot really tell).

When configuring the details of the alarm it looks like this. Here selected options have dark background, do they? It the other way round! It's very hard to tell which options are selected and which are not. It might happen that the users configure the opposite of what they actually want, due to this unclear UI design.

Please, fix the design to make it clear and unambigous which options are selected and which are unselected!
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WearOS App does not show wind forecast!
The main purpose of Windy is to get wind forecasts, hence its name. It is a very good app/service, I have the premium subscription and use and like it a lot.
I just installed the WearOS App and had to find out that it only shows the current wind, which is kind of useless, because I can observe the current wind myself, but it lacks the wind data in the hourly forecast. It only shows temperature and the sun/cloud icon. But the wind data is what I actually want to see here! It shows wind forecast data only as a single value for each day. But what does than mean? At which hour, noon? Or is it the maximum? We don't know!
Please add wind speed and direction to the hourly forecast data in the WearOS App!

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RE: Windy 39 is here. Learn how to masterclass new features
@Arne-Christensen-3 I have the same problem. I think the wind direction is shown relative to the planned track with the head of boat pointing to the right, somewhat counter intuitive. The arrows are green for down wind and get red for up wind courses. In the web version of windy you can change the orientation of the arrows (barbs) under "more options" but this setting is missing in the app.
Shading of day/night times as in the "normal" forecast would be nice in deed.
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RE: Windy 39 is here. Learn how to masterclass new features
In the web view the orientation of the wind barbs in the route planner can be changed unter "more options", but there is no such setting in the app.
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RE: Windy 39 is here. Learn how to masterclass new features
Very nice, thanks for this version. I use Windy for sailing and the route planning feature is handy, you can see the forecast along the intended track with its change in time. But I have a few problems with it.
-
I assume the time shown on top of the forecast data in the yellow box is the intended departure time. When I now tap in the data to place a cursor, the time show on the vertical line is wrong, it even does not increase monotonously from left to right, it jumps randomly.
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The wind direction arrows do not make sense to me. Is it showing absolute wind direction (north up) or is it showing the direction relative to the track (head up). Both variants do not agree with the with the direction shown in the animation
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RE: Tide Forecast on Windy
I just for fun compared the tide prediction by windy with those available at the german BSH.
It's not too bad, the times for high and low water are pretty close useful as guide on how to plan a passage. I was mainly puzzled by the hights shown in windy. There are negative values. So the values given are definitely not suitable for use in navigational calculations, which is totally ok because the feature is experimental.
What hight reference datum does windy use?
In marine navigation the usual reference datum for water levels/depth is LAT=lowest astronomical tide which is used as zero depth in nautical charts and which ensures that hights of tides are always positive (by definition) and depths in a nav chart are minimal depth. (Actual water level may get negative due to wind or other influences but not due to calculated tides.)