@ronwestlake Yes, the new version is so buggy and less intuitive. Timeline still dissappears.

Windy was such a great app before. It's not my favourite app anymore. I may not resubscribe next time and will look for an app that is easier to use. 🙏✌️

@vict90 It is more laggy and sometimes menu items disappear or don't work. The timeline disappears randomly. The former app was perfect. Not now. 😓

@kirc Yes, it was an excellent app before. I'm concerned that they have made so many changes without much (if any?) consultation with the many subscribers that use the app?

Are the same staff still there? Or is it a much bigger organisation now?

The weather picker was brilliant. You could screen shot after hovering over a given height and area (say 500hPa) and have the atmospheric situation concisely portrayed. I don't like the new app. It feels a bit dumbed down. I have a good phone with 6GB of RAM and it just doesn't work well on this phone compared to the previous app.

It's not the same app, with the same professional polish. I don't want to unsubscribe but if they continue with this app, I am looking at two other options instead of Windy which is sad. I hope they are listening to us.

I'm an older person, so maybe my thoughts are not so important but as a writer, web admin with many thousands of followers and subscribers, I do know how important it is to listen to those that follow my work. I can't recall any surveys or polls about the new app? Whether we were happy with the previous app etc? It was an excellent offering before.

Please offer us the previous app. It really was better. More usable. More enjoyable.

I don't really have time to make too many more comments or posts. This new app has taken a lot of my time - when in reality, all I want to do, is enjoy the gift of atmospheric science and the people I write for.

✌️🤞🙏

I love Windy. It has been the best app by far. I promote it to my 25,000 followers. Sadly, the new app isn't great. Too many glitches and bugs. And it's slow.

Timeline dissappears randomly

Extended forecast button won't always work

App is now too slow

Please return to the previous app. 🙏

This is a fantastic addition. Those of us from Australia will really appreciate the offerings from this well known model. I am actively involved in the weather fraternity in Australia (around 20,000 subscribers) and promote your app often.

@Ben-Whitehead Yes, it has been a fantastic app for years that I have promoted. Sadly, it's becoming more basic without the beautifully refined offerings it used to have. I so wish the Windy staff would listen to us and return to the previous version.

I'm going to do a poll on my social media about this. ✌️🙏

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.

I've given the new version of Windy with the graphical interface every chance to impress me but sadly, it just hasn't.

I still have to press the extended menu up to ten times to get it to open and the whole layout of Windy these days is just too clunky and not as easy to use.

I really miss the former version of Windy and am not sure I will resubscribe.

Kind regards,

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. 😊🌬

www.blackheathweather.com

Hi folks,

Love windy and use it every day.

I've noticed a change on the desktop version of Windy Airgrams where we no longer see the cloud profile from the surface to higher levels of the atmosphere. It's still there on the phone app but not on the desktop. This makes it harder to view freezing level at 850hPa and how it corresponds to cloud development through the layers. I have to switch back and forth from Airgram and Meteogram on the desktop.

I have tested this both in Chrome desktop browser and Firefox.

You can see the difference on the desktop (top image) and phone app (bottom image).

@Jari-Sochorová

Thanks Jari. ✌️

Hi all,

I love Windy but it's buggier on Android now. It's quite easy to accidentally leave the Windy app when pressing on the menu at the bottom, as menu items are directly over the return to desktop function.

Also, in landscape mode, I can't choose menu items at all. I end up accidentally pressing phone buttons and leaving the app unintentionally...

I've got a Samsung A35 with up to date OS. Was the latest version of Windy tested well in Android? It feels harder to use now.

@NikiD Hi Niki,

Thanks Niki

What helped was locating my site settings in Chrome browser and deleting the Windy site data and permissions. Then everything was working again after logging back in. I was having the same problem on my Android phone and Linux desktop browser - both using Chrome. Weird rendering issues with MSLP. But the app worked fine. I didn't need to use another browser, even though that also worked.

Everything did work well in Firefox and also on my wife's PC, so I figured it was some configuration corruption in Chrome with Windy settings. Once I deleted all site data and signed back in, everything is working fine, even on my phone via the mobile website.

Hi Folks,

Love Windy, use it every day!

I can't understand what has been happening on the desktop compared to the phone app.

When i look at the 27/5 May forecast maps for Australia on my phone (a significant weather event) I can view the 850hPa temperature and MSLP but when I try to do it on my desktop with the same parameters, I get a confusing map rendering. What is happening?

Phone (app)

Desktop

I don't understand what this desktop map is showing with the same parameters selected (MSLP and temperature at 850hPa)

@idefix37 Thanks very much for your reply. It has been very accurate overnight for the drizzle in my area, which is very hard to predict via traditional modelling for many years. It has even predicted when this drizzle would stop to the hour, when other models have not. Part of that is probably related to the correct altitude for my village, rather then most models that average the altitude for a given area, which makes a big difference with low cloud drizzle.

It would be great to get more info from Windy app on MeteoBlue as they now have a good share in it's ownership, I understand.

Hi Everyone,

I love Windy and use it every day. Just the best app in the world for weather.

I am still trying to understand MeteoBlue as it appears to be quite accurate indeed compared to other models (especially for drizzle) for my hilly/mountainous area west of Sydney, Australia. I live at 1080M above sea level.

MeteoBlue is AI, that collects data from many models?

Is MeteoBlue constantly updating, hence why it doesn't give a model update time on Windy?

Does MeteoBlue actually have a resolution, being that it is AI data collected from many models?

Windy doesn't seem to offer more information on MeteoBlue under 'About These Data' options?

Many thanks. :)

This is a huge addition to Windy app. I haven't used the web version for a week or so and didn't notice ACCESS-C until today, as we have severe thunderstorms in our area.

Can't wait for the app to include ACCESS-C.

The ACCESS-C predictions for Wednesday are a good addition to ECMWF as we can see ACCESS-C has much higher estimates for showers. This is of course, an indication of convection and storms and not necessarily indicative of what my region will see but the potential is there in heavier storm activity.

Hi all,

I generally really like Windy Subscription version but the new weather picker is annoying when viewing my favourites, ie: My own town. If I zoom out to view the model in more detail, it changes my location. The old weather picker was better. It's really important to be able to zoom out the MSLP charts for example whilst viewing the airgram data which can't be done anymore, to my mind, as the weather picker when zooming out moves away from my favourite location.

@Ondřej-Šutera

Samsung A33 5G
6G RAM
Android 13
One UI 5.1

All latest updates. All other apps running perfectly.

Edited: The latest version of Windy just came to Android. It's early days but the extended forecast option seems to be working better, so far.