Windy is a fantastic tool! It covers all my weather information needs, and it does that in style.Congratulations to the developers! Keep on amzing us!

@rittels right - if route planning should be of any help for sailors, polar charts are essential. You would need a polar table editor and import/export functionality. Polar charts for several yacht types are available, however any modifaction (e.g. different sail) results in a different polar.
Look at squid-sailing as a working example (my preferred choice for routing, also unfortunately very clumsy). To make it useful in coastal waters, you would also need maps with water depth, current and tide information.
Would love to see that in windy!

Same place, same time, same weather model (ECMWF):
3hr view says rain from 1400 to 1700 (0.2mm), 1hr view does not see any rain until 2100. How is that possible?
Temperature, wind and clouds are consistent in both views.
Thomas

@rittels right - if route planning should be of any help for sailors, polar charts are essential. You would need a polar table editor and import/export functionality. Polar charts for several yacht types are available, however any modifaction (e.g. different sail) results in a different polar.
Look at squid-sailing as a working example (my preferred choice for routing, also unfortunately very clumsy). To make it useful in coastal waters, you would also need maps with water depth, current and tide information.
Would love to see that in windy!

To download this video just click with right mouse button on this link and select "Save link as..."

This video is licenced under Creative Commons licence (CC-BY 3) and can be used/modified freely in any possible way. Just mention Windy.com

Create your own animation at https://www.windy.com/animate

User thomhada just created Animated GIF.

You can use or share this image on this URL: https://i.windy.com/a/1kgd/55dz07.gif

This image is licenced under Creative Commons licence (CC-BY 3) and can be used/modified freely in any possible way. Just mention Windy.com

Create your own animation at https://www.windy.com/animate

Windy is a fantastic tool! It covers all my weather information needs, and it does that in style.Congratulations to the developers! Keep on amzing us!