@Suty the entire background map. It's currently grey under any product layers. It's particularly the radar I'd prefer black. I've tried changing the lowest DBZ to black but that didn't work.

@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 could we possibly have some more map styles?

Personally I'd prefer all black instead of the current grey.

@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.

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.

@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.

@gkr1959 it is a conspiracy theory. How about not starting with that website. Do you know why? It's main documentary opens at a rate of 1 lie every 5.5 seconds!

The only people that ever tell others to "do their research" is that of people with no higher scientific qualifications who simply don't understand anything therefore are prone to believing false information.

You have been told very clearly it's a conspiracy theory. So please pack it in, if you're unable to do that go elsewhere and find a conspiracy Facebook page etc and spout the nonsense on there instead.

@Suty

Why Dew point is moisture content. I have mine displayed like this, using temperature makes no sense.

Again radar+ was useful having a different scale to cut out virga that looked a mess when overlayed with satellite

Tim

Hi

I noticed a couple of weeks ago the dew point colour table option disappeared from the desktop version. Now the radar+ colour table has gone. Both these are still visible on the Android version so I assume some sort of bug/mistake has happened?

Tim

@petorama

Yeah got to agree they should be customisable as sometimes they're very difficult to make out

@verminal

I disagree, I think it's too light. I think this is simply personal preference than any display error.

I do think though that it would be good for multiple options for map backgrounds, eg Radar Omega has 11 options to choose from.

@WeatherMan10 I know they have plans for it. Hopefully sometime this year maybe?

@WeatherMan10

They've never made the data public not even to purchase. I wish they would though!

The precip type data is available however.

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

@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.

@idefix37

I think the problem is when you want to look at the past just a few frames without playing the whole sequence it's difficult to get back to the latest frame. I've just tried it now on Android, tired to go to the latest frame at it said "0 minutes ago" which of course you'd assume is the latest but of course it actually wasn't. You basically have to close the app down and then reopen it to know you're really at the latest frame again which is a bit annoying.

Perhaps if Windy are determined to keep it without having the option to turn off there could be a latest frame button so you definitely know you're back at the beginning?

I thought it was that or similar. Any chance we could have the predicted intensity instead? In forecasting terms it would be more useful as the last 3 hours is what's happened instead of what's happening at any one particular point in time.

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.

Hi at the moment I'm pretty sure Windys rain/thunder layer uses 1 hour accumulation and not forecast precipitation. This creates strange lines (where the precip would have fallen in the past hour) instead of viewing the actual areas of precip which causes a loss of definition.

For example for today in the Southern UK windys rain/thunder layer shows this for 22:00

Ventusky which uses the actual forecast precip looks like this

You can see the difference where Windy isn't using forecast precip and instead is using 1hr accumulation which creates the lines effect and obviously doesn't show as much detail.