It would be nice to be able to toggle 'Off' the radar 'Forecast'.

Not sure how others find it, but for me, the forecast(approx 1 hour into the future??) is usually pretty inaccurate, so rarely a good indication on where the storms will track.

Also, I find that when I have a Radar page up and running, as soon as that page loses focus, it moves to showing the 'Forecast' radar, rather than the current radar.
VERY frustrating.

PLEASE; Give me the option/toggle to turn the forecast section of the radar OFF.

@Suty said in Option to toggle On/Off the Rain Radar 'Forecast' section?:

@Rod-Outback How exactly does this happen? You cannot play the forecast if you not intentionally click on that part of the timeline. If you play the animation of past data, it is not possible to get to the forecast animation.

Thats not correct; at least in both my browsers (Firefox with latest patches).
If I have multiple browser pages open, and one of them is running the historical radar data, and I change focus to another page, when I return to the Windy radar page, the radar is now only playing the 'Forecast' section of the radar.

I dont know why it's happening, but this seems to have started in the past few weeks, but possibly longer(not 100% sure).

Again; I'm not sure who gets any benefit from the 'Forecast' radar, because in our case (Western QLD - Australia), the 'Forecast' is woefully inaccurate.
Being able to toggle this feature ON/OFF would be a great thing; in my world, at least.
[And it seems I'm not the only person who's experiencing it..]

@andyman888 said in Weather Radar forecast - option to disable please:

Re: Forecast Weather Radar

Hi,

Have you progressed this at all to provide the option to disable the weather radar forecast? I find it unhelpful and inaccurate.

Also, when I load the weather radar forecast I use it by holding the slider and swiping back and forth with it across the screen repeatedly to get an idea of weather movement.

Previously this was simply left and right to the limits of the screen and the weather radar imagery would hard stop at each end of the historic period of time being represented.

However, now I can't do that as I have to stop in the middle which is hard to do accurately. I wish to be able to enable/disable the radar forecast in options please.

This should not be a challenging option to implement and judging from other posts seems to be wanted by other users.

Please let me know if you are able to implement this and allow users to customise their experience according to their use requirements.

Many thanks.
Andrew

I agree wholeheartedly with this request; the radar forecast is next to useless, and the radar slider keeps jumping from 'actual' to 'forecast', which adds even more to the confusion.
[This jumping isnt supposed to be possible, but I see it happens dozens of times a day]
I have now verified that the jumping from 'actual' to 'forecast' happens on both my Windows 10 laptops running latest version of Firefox, but also on my Samsung phone running latest version of Firefox.
So I'm thinking this snt just me..
But setting aside my frustrations with what looks to be a bug in the Radar/forecast map, the forecast radar never tracks even close to the actual.
So, I'd ask for this option(Forecast Radar) to be able to be turned off; same as we can do for lightning and others.

Many Thanks.

@Rod-Outback said in Option to toggle On/Off the Rain Radar 'Forecast' section?:

@Suty said in Option to toggle On/Off the Rain Radar 'Forecast' section?:

@Rod-Outback For how long you have to be on that another tab or window to make this work?

"Make this work?" ?? - I'm not trying to force this problem; hence my suggestion there's a toggle for the forecast be switched on/off(as is done with 'lightning', 'sound', and 'my location').

I've found NO set time-frame for the change to happen.
This morning, it happened in a matter of minutes; while I was checking the news on ABC.NET.AU.
Within maybe 5 minutes of looking at the news, the radar had switched to running the forecast rain.

Tried to repeat it(to try to pin down an exact event) and couldnt get it to happen again.
I had wondered if it was something like an onLostFocus event when the radar updated to the latest imagery(every 10 minutes?), but cant seem to find the exact trigger to cause it to happen on demand.

But happen again, it will!
And it's frustrating.
Definately happening on both my laptops running Firefox, but not 100% sure I've seen it on my Android phone, yet.

Watched it jump across from Radar to forecast radar, twice in succession, this afternoon.
Looks like it was around 5-8 minutes apart, but definitely jumped, while I wasnt moving/clicking anything on the screen.
I keep coming back to something happening when the radar imagery updates, and the 'Forecast' section takes focus.
But it definitely does jump from Radar, to Forecast, on it's own.

@andyman888 said in Weather Radar forecast - option to disable please:

Re: Forecast Weather Radar

Hi,

Have you progressed this at all to provide the option to disable the weather radar forecast? I find it unhelpful and inaccurate.

Also, when I load the weather radar forecast I use it by holding the slider and swiping back and forth with it across the screen repeatedly to get an idea of weather movement.

Previously this was simply left and right to the limits of the screen and the weather radar imagery would hard stop at each end of the historic period of time being represented.

However, now I can't do that as I have to stop in the middle which is hard to do accurately. I wish to be able to enable/disable the radar forecast in options please.

This should not be a challenging option to implement and judging from other posts seems to be wanted by other users.

Please let me know if you are able to implement this and allow users to customise their experience according to their use requirements.

Many thanks.
Andrew

I agree wholeheartedly with this request; the radar forecast is next to useless, and the radar slider keeps jumping from 'actual' to 'forecast', which adds even more to the confusion.
[This jumping isnt supposed to be possible, but I see it happens dozens of times a day]
I have now verified that the jumping from 'actual' to 'forecast' happens on both my Windows 10 laptops running latest version of Firefox, but also on my Samsung phone running latest version of Firefox.
So I'm thinking this snt just me..
But setting aside my frustrations with what looks to be a bug in the Radar/forecast map, the forecast radar never tracks even close to the actual.
So, I'd ask for this option(Forecast Radar) to be able to be turned off; same as we can do for lightning and others.

Many Thanks.

@Rod-Outback

I seem to have over a dozen of these error console messages:-

Error no: 12

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"errorID": "100x-eventsource-error-event-for-urlblitzsseversion2",
"timestamp": 1735697759339,
"runningMs": 3672305,
"type": "user",
"module": "http",
"msg": "(100x) EventSource error event for url=/blitz/sse?version=2, options={}",
"repeated": 100,
"line": null,
"col": null,
"url": "https://www.windy.com/-Weather-radar-radar?radar,-23.056,144.621,9",
"script": null,
"ver": "44.1.2",
"target": "index",
"stack": false,
"platform": "desktop",
"error": " {
"isTrusted": true
}",
"isOnline": true,
"size": "1920x1080",
"latestBcast": "picker: dataChanged (89ms ago at 1735697759250)
store: radarTimestamp (44ms ago at 1735697759295)
picker: dataChanged (44ms ago at 1735697759295)
store: radarTimestamp (6ms ago at 1735697759333)
picker: dataChanged (6ms ago at 1735697759333)"
}

This is starting to look more like a bug.

@Rod-Outback said in Option to toggle On/Off the Rain Radar 'Forecast' section?:

@Suty said in Option to toggle On/Off the Rain Radar 'Forecast' section?:

@Rod-Outback For how long you have to be on that another tab or window to make this work?

"Make this work?" ?? - I'm not trying to force this problem; hence my suggestion there's a toggle for the forecast be switched on/off(as is done with 'lightning', 'sound', and 'my location').

I've found NO set time-frame for the change to happen.
This morning, it happened in a matter of minutes; while I was checking the news on ABC.NET.AU.
Within maybe 5 minutes of looking at the news, the radar had switched to running the forecast rain.

Tried to repeat it(to try to pin down an exact event) and couldnt get it to happen again.
I had wondered if it was something like an onLostFocus event when the radar updated to the latest imagery(every 10 minutes?), but cant seem to find the exact trigger to cause it to happen on demand.

But happen again, it will!
And it's frustrating.
Definately happening on both my laptops running Firefox, but not 100% sure I've seen it on my Android phone, yet.

Watched it jump across from Radar to forecast radar, twice in succession, this afternoon.
Looks like it was around 5-8 minutes apart, but definitely jumped, while I wasnt moving/clicking anything on the screen.
I keep coming back to something happening when the radar imagery updates, and the 'Forecast' section takes focus.
But it definitely does jump from Radar, to Forecast, on it's own.

@Suty said in Option to toggle On/Off the Rain Radar 'Forecast' section?:

@Rod-Outback For how long you have to be on that another tab or window to make this work?

"Make this work?" ?? - I'm not trying to force this problem; hence my suggestion there's a toggle for the forecast be switched on/off(as is done with 'lightning', 'sound', and 'my location').

I've found NO set time-frame for the change to happen.
This morning, it happened in a matter of minutes; while I was checking the news on ABC.NET.AU.
Within maybe 5 minutes of looking at the news, the radar had switched to running the forecast rain.

Tried to repeat it(to try to pin down an exact event) and couldnt get it to happen again.
I had wondered if it was something like an onLostFocus event when the radar updated to the latest imagery(every 10 minutes?), but cant seem to find the exact trigger to cause it to happen on demand.

But happen again, it will!
And it's frustrating.
Definately happening on both my laptops running Firefox, but not 100% sure I've seen it on my Android phone, yet.

@Suty said in Option to toggle On/Off the Rain Radar 'Forecast' section?:

@Rod-Outback How exactly does this happen? You cannot play the forecast if you not intentionally click on that part of the timeline. If you play the animation of past data, it is not possible to get to the forecast animation.

Thats not correct; at least in both my browsers (Firefox with latest patches).
If I have multiple browser pages open, and one of them is running the historical radar data, and I change focus to another page, when I return to the Windy radar page, the radar is now only playing the 'Forecast' section of the radar.

I dont know why it's happening, but this seems to have started in the past few weeks, but possibly longer(not 100% sure).

Again; I'm not sure who gets any benefit from the 'Forecast' radar, because in our case (Western QLD - Australia), the 'Forecast' is woefully inaccurate.
Being able to toggle this feature ON/OFF would be a great thing; in my world, at least.
[And it seems I'm not the only person who's experiencing it..]

@Suty Many thanks for the reply.

Problem is; once the focus for the page is lost(even for a minute or two), the radar now only plays the 'Forecast' section of the radar, which I'm finding woefully inaccurate.

I often have the radar page running, while I have other pages open while working here in my office.
When I come back to the radar to check it, I find the radar only playing the forecast track.

Frustrating, and something that only started happening in the past month or so.

It would be nice to be able to toggle 'Off' the radar 'Forecast'.

Not sure how others find it, but for me, the forecast(approx 1 hour into the future??) is usually pretty inaccurate, so rarely a good indication on where the storms will track.

Also, I find that when I have a Radar page up and running, as soon as that page loses focus, it moves to showing the 'Forecast' radar, rather than the current radar.
VERY frustrating.

PLEASE; Give me the option/toggle to turn the forecast section of the radar OFF.