Update: 14th of May, 9:00 am UTC

Cyclone Mocha has strengthened into a Category 4 storm and is currently nearing the Myanmar coastline for landfall. As an extremely severe system approaches, parts of Myanmar and Bangladesh are already experiencing severe weather.

Maximum winds are 249 km/h. Cyclone will bring strong winds and rain as well as a storm surge to a very exposed area. Preparations are complete to ensure people are as safe as possible.

Update: 13th of May, 9:00 am UTC

Cyclone Mocha is gathering strength at a faster pace than previously anticipated! It will reach the coast during the Sunday and is carrying winds of 159km/h (99mph) upon landfall.

Hundreds of thousands have been ordered to evacuate from coast areas in both countries. Specialists say that this size of storm hasn't been in this are over a decade.

Fortunately, it is expected that the storm will get weaker with the landfall with the coast in the Sunday morning.

https://www.windy.com/-Hurricane-tracker/hurricanes/mocha?satellite,20.737,87.987,6,internal

Dear Windy.com users,

We're excited to support our partner nowcast (https://www.nowcast.de/en/) in expanding the coverage of their global lightning network, that provides real-time data to Windy. So if you are interested in helping Windy and you want to see real time lightnings in your region, then this opportunity is for you. Nowcast is seeking volunteers in specific regions to host sensors, which are crucial for improving lightning detection and safety measures.

Here are the regions where they need your help

• Northern India or Nepal
• Mexico, Costa Rica, or Panama
• Western Pacific, including the Mariana Islands, Guam, and Palau
• Japan
• North-western parts of South America (Ecuador, Peru, northern Chile, …)
• Southern USA (along the Border to Mexico till Florida)

Site Requirements:

• Location should be free from significant electrical noise (e.g., distant from transformer stations, large motors, or high-voltage power lines).
• The site should provide a small area (less than 4 sqm) for the antenna.
• An elevated, restricted area with a clear, unobstructed horizon at a 25° elevation angle.
• Ideally, access to power and internet (less than 20W power usage and below 50kbit/s for data).

Benefits to Hosts:

As a host, you will not be required to install, maintain, or repair the equipment. All installation and maintenance costs will be covered by nowcast. In return, you'll receive either non-commercial access to nowcast's web application, allowing you to monitor thunderstorm activity and receive customizable alerts about lightning activity around your location, or a financial compensation.

Also as mentioned above, by becoming a host, you will also support the integration of enhanced lightning coverage for these regions in the Windy.com, benefiting users worldwide.

We appreciate your involvement and support in this significant project to enhance global safety and weather awareness. If you're interested or know someone who might be, please get in touch with us.

Thank you for your support!
The Windy.com Team

There is an outage of data over the whole American continent. We are investigating the issue with the highest priority.

Thank you for your patience.

@TerrorBite Hi, our trial version of API is rather for testing purposes for potential customers of the Professional license.

According to the Home version of API, we are not planning this now. However, I could consider with colleagues from the product team.

We are planning to update this and add info about the updated time of the model.

To provide further details about this missing layer. Radar+ was something like a step between two phases, since it provided new visualization technology for our RadSat layers. Now both layers (Radar and Satellite) are already displayed this way, so we decided to remove Radar+, because all features are displayed in these two.

@Ahmed-A-AS There was no change in these time periods in version 44. So I am not sure what you mean exactly.

There is currently an outage of satellites over the American continent. We are not receiving any data, and we are waiting for further development.

There is an outage of GEOS-16 East and GEOS-18 West, as shown on the NOAA Satellite Alert messages: https://ospo.noaa.gov/operations/messages.html

@mmurphy242 Hi, I might have better news for you, we started to discuss this topic and it could be added in upcoming plans to Windy. I can't promise any specific date, but we stopped to be negative about adding this dataset.

@acummings Hello, thank you for your report. I already note this and will discuss it with colleagues.

@Ankur-Jagani-2 Hello, what data do you exactly mean? We have never offered any historical data of forecasted data. We offer 1-year archive for radar and satellite images.

@Mehatzri Hello, may I ask what device and version of Windy you use? The number of version can be found at the bottom of the menu in our app. Please let us know.

@Gkikas-LGPZ Hello, these records are probably related to the latest update of ECMWF data. Our colleagues are already investigating it.

@idefix37 @uwinnaing Hello, these records are probably related to the latest update of ECMWF data. Our colleagues are already investigating it.

@Johan-Rebel Hello, can you please share the recording with support@windy.com?

@Janis-Rikardo-Očoa-Nīcgale Yes, this should be absolutely fine on our end.

@Jamie-Layman Hello, we offer our Weather Warnings layer, where all alerts with certain conditions are displayed for majority of regions.

@Jacob-Abelsen Hello, I sent specific instructions to you here in the direct chat window in the top right corner of community.

@tianch_zhang Hello, according to info from colleagues, we always use the latest version, 50r1 right now.

@Brian-Carlin Hello, pure desktop app is not planned at all, since you can use Windy in the browser as a web app.