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@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

@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.

@korina Yes, fair points, Korina. Sending a kind hello to you from the Blue Mountains, Australia.

Hi Folks,

I've been a premium user since the beginning and I have to say the new app update interface is buggy. Often the extended forecast won't work on my Android phone, no matter how many times I press on it. Samsung A33, 5G.

You can usually get it to work if you highlight the last hour before the extended forecast option then press extended forecast.

I'm sure everyone has worked hard on the update but it feels a bit hard to use. The previous versions of the app have always worked great for me.✌️

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.

@Keith-Chandler Yes, it's a model. It can't really over-promise because the data it offers should be viewed in the light of its limitations.

Local knowledge with forecasting, is also important. EC in my area gets temperatures 'wrong' because of the greatly variable terrain. It averages out the altitude across a given grid point. So, I need to adjust for the altitude of my town, to get a more accurate forecast.

@mates-dolda Cheers. I love Windy app. I recommend it to my 20,000 subscribers often!

@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.

www.blackheathweather.com - web admin and forecaster. A community weather initiative.

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. 😊

www.blackheathweather.com

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.

@temp850 I should say that ACCESS model from Australia was the only model that really picked the sunshine this afternoon in the Blue Mountains. All other models pretty much had it cloudy or drizzly.