Thanks so much for this wonderful app. I've also subscribed. I run a busy community forecasting website with about 20,000 subscribers and will promote the Windy App there.

This COVID-19 situation is indeed extremely serious. I have friends who work in health services and it is heart breaking to see so many folk dying across the world. Even those who don't die, many of them will suffer from permanent damage.

It's not my death that overly frightens me, it's the incredible suffering of others in poorer and vulnerable countries that frightens me. I am more than willing to lose work and indeed, work from home - to help deal with this awful virus.

Thanks again, for this wonderful app. In more than three decades of weather forecasting, I have never seen anything like it.

Thankyou.

This is my photo of the Blue Mountains region, where I live. The towns and villages in the Blue Mountains sit atop the eroded plateau and then the valleys are quite deep, within a few km of the towns. So yes, the lower resolution of the models averages out the altitude quite a lot.

I use the temperature at 900hPa and 850hPa during potential snowfalls, to determine the possibility of snow settling or indeed sleet or cold rain. As well as temperature etc, at 700hPa and 500hPa to determine possible convective snowfalls or maybe only isothermal snowfalls. I was successful on each occasion this year in forecasting our snow events and even was accurate with the amount of settling snow. Thanks to Windy app in part, this was made much easier.

Thank-you.

I have been promoting Windy.com on my Australian website, where I have about 20,000 subscribers and have done some basic tutorials, too.

It's an incredible app. 😊🌬

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@idefix37

Yes, there is a group of us that, for decades, have focused on the difficult task of forecasting snow for the Blue Mountains and Central Tablelands forecast district. Snow in Australia outside our ski fields is a real novelty and is usually very marginal. The challenge of forecasting it, is very enjoyable for a few dozen of us!

This is a shot from our snow this winter, August, 25th in this instance.

@idefix37 Thank you for your reply. It's a wonderful app.

Isolines are critical when identifying upper disturbances with enough accuracy to determine more accurate convective activity. And low level cold pools need accurate identification to determine isolated snowfalls in my region, like the surprise snowfall last year on September 17th, in the Blue Mountains, Australia.

So, if the app doesn't show them but the mobile site can via a bookmark from my desktop, I will have to use the mobile site instead of the app.

Isolines are very important in forecasting, to determine localised features.

Thanks for your response.

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Hi folks,

I promote Windy app on my website all the time, I love it.

Just wondering when the Premium App is coming out for Android? Do I wait for the Premium App or pay for Windy Premium on my desktop? Will paying on the desktop give me the Premium features on my phone app?

Cheers all. 😊

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I love the Windy app. Best I've ever seen, so many wonderful options.

Are there any plans for a basic ensemble output (temperature, rain) for say, ECMWF and GFS, for perhaps Windy Premium?

Ensemble forecasting is really valuable, due to each perturbation showing subtle changes in the atmosphere that forecasters can use effectively.

I use ensemble forecasting via another mobile website, which is very good, using percentiles. Would love to use it via Windy instead.

@idefix37

Yes, there is a group of us that, for decades, have focused on the difficult task of forecasting snow for the Blue Mountains and Central Tablelands forecast district. Snow in Australia outside our ski fields is a real novelty and is usually very marginal. The challenge of forecasting it, is very enjoyable for a few dozen of us!

This is a shot from our snow this winter, August, 25th in this instance.

Thankyou.

This is my photo of the Blue Mountains region, where I live. The towns and villages in the Blue Mountains sit atop the eroded plateau and then the valleys are quite deep, within a few km of the towns. So yes, the lower resolution of the models averages out the altitude quite a lot.

I use the temperature at 900hPa and 850hPa during potential snowfalls, to determine the possibility of snow settling or indeed sleet or cold rain. As well as temperature etc, at 700hPa and 500hPa to determine possible convective snowfalls or maybe only isothermal snowfalls. I was successful on each occasion this year in forecasting our snow events and even was accurate with the amount of settling snow. Thanks to Windy app in part, this was made much easier.

@idefix37

Thanks for taking the time to reply.

I do the snow and storm forecasting etc for my region via my website and I usually find Windy very good, when I use the atmospheric parameters at 900hPa, 850hPa, 700hPa and 500hPa etc.

When using the meteograms and airgrams, it is also very instructional and quite accurate. It is even possible to predict isothermal layers during marginal snow conditions, which is the norm in Australia. Our snow usually falls as wet snow, sometimes a lot of it.

I have looked today at four different town forecasts in the Blue Mountains of NSW at approximate altitudes of 1100M, 1000M and 900M and 800M and each of these towns via the basic forecast on Windy app showed different temperatures throughout the day by a degree or two. So, there must be some adjustments made in this regard.

I'm just not sure how and what is done.

Hi folks,

I love the windy app, I use it and recommend it all the time, as a premium user of this product. I use it for my community weather website (20,000+ suscribers) in the Blue Mountains of Australia, 100km west of Sydney, at 1100M above sea level, where I live.

I have a question. When I click on the sounding option for my area, I get the model altitude of around 800M and the actual altitude of my town of around 1080M. This allows me to make adjustments for the model sounding altitude and my actual altitude. I live in an area of greatly variable terrain, where my village is at 1100M but just a few kilometres to the east or west, it might be only 500M in altitude.

My question:

When I look at the Windy Basic Forecast rendition from ECMWF model for my area, am I looking at the actual temperature forecast for my altitude of 1080M or are the temperature forecasts actually for the model altitude of around 800M, like they are in the sounding option?

Many thanks for such a fine application and thanks to everyone that works so hard, producing it! :)

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I love the Windy app. Best I've ever seen, so many wonderful options.

Are there any plans for a basic ensemble output (temperature, rain) for say, ECMWF and GFS, for perhaps Windy Premium?

Ensemble forecasting is really valuable, due to each perturbation showing subtle changes in the atmosphere that forecasters can use effectively.

I use ensemble forecasting via another mobile website, which is very good, using percentiles. Would love to use it via Windy instead.

Thanks so much for this wonderful app. I've also subscribed. I run a busy community forecasting website with about 20,000 subscribers and will promote the Windy App there.

This COVID-19 situation is indeed extremely serious. I have friends who work in health services and it is heart breaking to see so many folk dying across the world. Even those who don't die, many of them will suffer from permanent damage.

It's not my death that overly frightens me, it's the incredible suffering of others in poorer and vulnerable countries that frightens me. I am more than willing to lose work and indeed, work from home - to help deal with this awful virus.

Thanks again, for this wonderful app. In more than three decades of weather forecasting, I have never seen anything like it.