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    stevecrye

    @stevecrye

    Earthman with his head in the clouds!

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    Best posts made by stevecrye

    • RE: Why is Wind speed in hurricanes so wrong?

      @TZ 100% correct TZ. Others in this thread clearly don't understand weather modeling. Windy pulls the model data - NAM 3k, ECMWF 9k or GFS 22k - from NOAA and other agencies and then displays it on a great GUI - all 100% free. Windy does not generate model data. Prior to Windy I was forced to look at the raw data - ugh. I'm hoping soon that Windy can also show other "popular" models such as HRRR, OP4-, BAK40, etc. Also, a skew-t at a click would be wonderful! Keep up the good work. Windy is an invaluable tool for pilots and sailors, who use it every day. As for the haters - take the time to learn how to use Windy - for example, I just now selected Wind Gusts and see 155 MPH near the eye of Irma - very accurate. And study meteorology , it might help you get a clue ... if all that fails, go use some other app/website, most are not free.

      Steve

      posted in Frequently Asked Questions
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    • RE: HRRR would be fantastic!

      @nirvous I agree! XCskies has HRRR, it would be great to have it in Windy too!

      posted in Your Feedback and Suggestions
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    • MetoBlue wildly inaccurate in the SW usa

      Simply put, MB is never correct. Not only is it wrong when compared with actual observations, it's always in disagreement with other models, not just GFS, ECMWF, NAM, but also OP40, ICON, and HRRR.

      Just saying..screen shot

      posted in General Discussion
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    • NAM updates slow, "about data" contradictory

      For several days I've noticed that moving the time slider in the Android app will not change the wind or other parameters displayed, only when NAM is selected. The "about these data" for NAM shows contradictory information, such as last updated one day ago, next update now, but it lists the next update expected for a time more than 6 hours in the past.
      Also, the NAM forecast displayed by Windy differs from what I see in XCkies using NAM.
      Also, normally NAM can look ahead more than two days, but right now it cant see more than about 30 hours from now.

      bad NAM

      posted in Bug Reports
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    • Please let us choose the default model

      Windy defaults to ECMWF. That model is wildly wrong in the SW USA desert. NAM is accurate for our location. For years I have endured changing the model to NAM, this is becoming quite tedious. Pleasw allow us to choose the model that is displayed on startup. Thanks!

      posted in Your Feedback and Suggestions
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    • RE: MetoBlue wildly inaccurate in the SW usa

      @jmh2002 Sure, I understand that. (I've been a Windy user from the early days) .
      My point was purely informational. MeteoBlue is not accurate for the SW USA. Other models, for example HRRR , might be a better addition to the Big Three (NAM, GFS, ECMWF)

      posted in General Discussion
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    • Can't add fully functional Holfuy to Windy

      Hi,

      The Sandia Soaring Association maintains a new, Ultrasonic Holfuy In Albuquerque NM at the top of Sandia Peak:

      https://holfuy.com/en/weather/954

      I tried to add it to Windy using the Add Weather Station feature, but it errored-out.
      Error Message

      Any suggestions? The URL is valid, and I completed all the required fields.

      Sandia Holfuy Fields

      Thanks,

      Steve Crye

      posted in Bug Reports
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    • RE: At least make the new blinding white menu bar transparent

      @TomSlavkovsky Please understand I'm a loyal, long time user and supporter. I hate to complain about such a great app. But I'm also a designer, and the best thing about Windy is it never, until now, had menus that took up screen real estate. Even 48 pixels is too much, it's bad design. Used to be able to hit the 3-line menu, change models, then hit the x and have most of the screen back. Now hit the three dots on a new menu that offers no additional functionality, switch models, then alllll the way up to the upper left to dismiss settings. .. and horrible, unneeded white bar is still there glaring at me.

      I'll increase my offer for the APK of the previous version to $125, paid in advance via PayPal. I'm not wealthy, ithat is 10% of my weekly paycheck, but it would be worth it to me.

      Thanks!

      posted in Your Feedback and Suggestions
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    • Wind display flags do not match time table

      See this screenshot

      https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GeUVvBSZCH-OY9RZRXg3VyEXr79AyZUX/view?usp=drivesdk

      Notice how 1700 is highlighted, but the wind flags around the selection point are for 1800. Samsung Galaxy Note 9. This seems to have started after the 25.0.0 update.
      Easy to replicate. Persists after a soft reset and uninstall/reinstall.

      Thanks,

      Steve

      posted in Bug Reports
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    • RE: We want altitude slider back!!!! Please support us here.

      I'm soo happy I am still running the old version of the app, that has the ALTITUDE SLIDER WHERE IT SHOULD BE!!

      A few updates back I learned the hard way to never, never upgrade the Windy app until I tested it on someone else phone.

      Steve

      posted in Your Feedback and Suggestions
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    Latest posts made by stevecrye

    • RE: Can't see name or info on Paragliding spots in the app or using mobile browsers

      @Korina Ok.. this response does not make sense. You're telling me that a great element of functionality was a bug, and now you've removed that bug, and we no longer have that functionality? I can't really believe that's what you're saying.

      The latest version of the Android app features a beautiful photo of a paraglider. Clearly PG pilots are valued user group. We do not carry laptops around with us while on flycations, we use the app on our phones. To show icons on the map that are PG spots with no means of identifying them is bizarre and frustrating.

      Can you please clarify what you mean. Also please advise when you're going to fix the problem so that we can see the info using the app.

      posted in General Discussion
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    • Can't see name or info on Paragliding spots in the app or using mobile browsers

      When you go to windy.com on a desktop browser, you can hover the mouse over the paragliding spots and a little info bubble pops up showing details that come from paragliding earth.

      None of that is possible using the app, or a mobile browser. In the past, we used to be able to, if we had a phone with a pen, hover the pen over the paragliding spot and get the same info as if one hovered one's Mouse over the paragliding spot. However that has not worked for at least 2 years. The app needs to have some kind of functionality where you can select a paragliding spot on the map and see the same info that's available on the desktop browser.

      Steve

      posted in General Discussion
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    • Android app hangs when selecting 1 hour forecast

      Just started now. App will hang when selecting one hour forecast in Wind option. error console shows errors. Unable to copy entire error message,

      {
      "timestamp": 1649312124813,
      "runningMs": 303338,
      "type": "user",
      "module": "windDisplay",
      "msg": "Loading/rendering models",
      "line": null,
      "col": null,
      "url": "http://localhost/#/31.787/-106.581/wind?2022040706,31.746,-106.581,12,i:pressure",
      "script": null,
      "ver": "34.3.2",
      "target": "mobile",
      "stack": "TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'segments')
      at Object.weatherData (http://localhost/v/34.3.2.mob.c14d/mobile.js:6:225334)
      at Object.init (http://localhost/v/34.3.2.mob.c14d/plugins/detail-render.js:1:17171)
      at me (http://localhost/v/34.3.2.mob.c14d/plugins/detail.js:1:5980)
      at he (http://localhost/v/34.3.2.mob.c14d/plugins/detail.js:1:6921)",
      "deviceID": "92730aa6-7113-246d-e893-95d7c6685944",
      "error": " {
      "stack": "

      posted in Bug Reports
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    • Wind pointers show the hour after selected

      I posted this bug a couple of years ago, still not solved. Windy app for Android, running on Android 9.

      Easier to see than describe, see attached. When a point is selected, and the little down arrow is pressed to display more details, when Wind is selected, the little wind flags show the wind that is forecast the hour after the selected time.

      example

      Thanks,

      Steve

      posted in Bug Reports
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    • RE: Paragliding spots that have been deleted in Paragliding Earth still appear in Windy

      @korina Thanks please keep working on it.

      posted in Your Feedback and Suggestions
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    • RE: Paragliding spots that have been deleted in Paragliding Earth still appear in Windy

      @korina So, two new releases have come out and it is still not fixed! I'm sick of waiting! The listing of a closed launch in El Paso TX is causing us problems with the RRRG ! Please we need this closed site purged from Windy!

      posted in Your Feedback and Suggestions
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    • RE: Model choice set-up

      @petra-pik I also need this. The coding would be simple. ECMWF is wildly wrong for the SW USA.

      posted in Your Feedback and Suggestions
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    • RE: HRRR would be fantastic!

      @nirvous I agree! XCskies has HRRR, it would be great to have it in Windy too!

      posted in Your Feedback and Suggestions
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    • Please let us choose the default model

      Windy defaults to ECMWF. That model is wildly wrong in the SW USA desert. NAM is accurate for our location. For years I have endured changing the model to NAM, this is becoming quite tedious. Pleasw allow us to choose the model that is displayed on startup. Thanks!

      posted in Your Feedback and Suggestions
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    • RE: Paragliding spots that have been deleted in Paragliding Earth still appear in Windy

      @korina Please, I'm begging, delete Lee's Lookout near El Paso Texas. The continued presence of this closed paragliding spot in Windy is causing us many problems. I'm confused as to why we have to wait for a new version of the app. It shows up in web browsers too, and there has been at least one new version of the Windy app since my original request.

      Thanks,

      Steve

      posted in Your Feedback and Suggestions
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