I've got to admit I'm quite disappointed with the layer. I was hoping for different color palettes for each precip type (ideally that we can also use custom ones). I think the snowflake overlay just looks ugly.

Are there any plans in the future to add the radar and satellite images to the 3D globe option like the models are?

Furthermore are the also any plans to introduce the 3D globe format to the mobile apps?

Tim

I'm not sure what product Windy uses for visible satellite but it has a yellow tint and there are better options from competitors.

So my suggestion would be for windy to use a more natural colour type. Here's an example below of what I mean. These images were taken about 5 minutes ago.

Here's Windys image of North America

Here's Zoom Earths image from the same time

To me it's much clearer and the colours more natural looking. It would be good if Windy could get theirs to the same level of clarity or maybe have the option for both versions if some people prefer the yellowish version.

Tim

Hi would it be possible to have the smoothing as optional so we could view the raw data if we wanted a higher definition view of precipitation? I find although it looks nice the Windy smoothing is a little overdone. Radar Omega for example has a smoothing scale which would be the best option if possible. From no smoothing to pretty much what we've got at the moment.

Tim

Would it be possible to have precip typing to separate rain/sleet/snow etc. A few other global radar apps have this option.

Tim

Whilst the playback speed for 1 hour is fine when you extend this to the longer options the amount of time of the animation in the slowest setting is the same, meaning it plays 12 times faster when selecting 12 hours.

Can this be changed so the speed is in a frames per second format which would then bring all the options in line instead of them getting crammed into the current way where the duration just seems to be a certain period of time for all frames.

Tim

@idefix37 most models have simulated reflectivity as a product. Can this be added? I think a lot of people would find it useful.

Got to agree with this. Temperature in particular. I use one for surface temp and one for 850hPa. It would be good if we could save them to avoid having to refer to saved text documents.

@idefix37

I'm more thinking of about using it as a hands free option when driving whilst storm chasing. Having to press buttons at exact times is no good for me.

It was a problem that occurred last year. I was chasing a storm, probably looked at the last few frames. About 15 minutes later the sky looked nothing like the radar presentation but that was because it was stuck on some past frame and not at the latest.

The long and the short of it is many people would find it useful to disable the future forecast when not required.

@Frank748

I prefer a higher colour gradient it shows more detail, I write my own because of this. This is the SOLE reason high colour gradients exist, please take your pointless band wagon jumping political nonsense elsewhere. If you don't like them as someone else suggested make your own, then wonder why you need a magnifying glass to differentiate from 25C and 30C because you've made them almost exactly the same colour.

@Benjamin-Conner-2 that's because only some people from one country call it that. The entire rest of the world calls it the Gulf of Mexico.

@mccresa said in Gulf of America:

Windy needs to recognize the change to Gulf of America as has other weather apps. Not doing so suggests political bias, which this app should not have.

Windy is a globally used app. Myself I'm from the UK. I can tell you now not a single other country calls it that.

The political bias is solely yours. You're obviously a Trump supporter.

Hi every now and again there seems to be rendering problems with the UK radar.

Right now a thunderstorm complex is moving Northwest. A strange right hand angle has developed where reflectivity isn't being displayed properly as shown by the white line here

Another app displays the precip area correctly as shown here

Tim

@anthony10

I've found your best exporting it into a text document. Do the editing in the text document then importing it back in.

@TIV-3 no this is a rendering issue hence posting the same storm viewed with another app that didn't have the issue and displayed the storm correctly.

Would it be possible to have a seperate color table for dew point added as currently it shares the normal temperature one.

Tim

Hi

This issue happens almost daily. Today twice daily. A radar site is displaying echoes when there is no precipitation. this is not an issue with the radar itself as other radar apps don't have this issue so it's a rendering issue with Windys radar.

I'll attach a couple of examples below. First around 09:45 this morning

Here Windy is incorrectly displaying precip between Bristol and Southampton.
Using another app you can see there was no precipitation happening (the time is displayed at the bottom here)

Later today some precipitation was moving in from the SW. Here is Windys image

Again the same area is showing false echoes.

This is an image from another app where it displays correctly.

Obviously it's an issue by the looks of it with just one radars data well the way Windy displays it as I've shown no other apps have this issue.

Tim

@TrWxMan your best bet would be to create your own colour table making all reflectivities lower than say 40dbz a neutral grey that is the same as the background map. Obviously it would be permanently like this if you did that.

@idefix37
I have noticed a lot of the scales for the colours at the bottom have the higher values missing.

Would it be possible for the lower scales to be adjusted so they show the entire scale.

Tim

@Sandip-Das-b5a5583b-8656-498b-9e33-3000debe53b8

The accuracy of the forecasts all depends on the models used. Adding extra stations won't change this.