I agree. If the 3D were prominently placed in the layers, it would be noticed, and if people like the graphics then it WILL get used.

@wxr said in Windy.com brings high visibility satellite layer:

Looks great. Thank you.

I like the new details of how the cloud cover is presented. It seems that the nighttime side is brighter, too, than the older visible nighttime side.

@wxr said in Windy.com brings high visibility satellite layer:

Looks great. Thank you.

@peter-llanes I don't recall a 3D mode. I must have missed THAT one; it may have been around for a brief time. 3D mode should be a feature they can develop. Why not develop the feature such that it would work with radar, which would be good for knowing the height of thunderstorms, like these TV radars do. Also I would like to see the lightning integrated in a future 3D mode. I would imagine there would be a LOT of demand for such a 3D mode. If TV radars can do it, so could Windy.

@richard514 Yes, the site is still free; it's the FULL version of 3D that won't be. I found THAT disappointing, but you can still have all you want in 2D. You can still go ahead and promote the site. I myself do NOT like 3D; it has slow, bulky wind animations, the mouse feels draggy and the computer "feels" slow. If you ignore 3D, you will like the current Windy with all its' features. I am sure new free ones will get added to the site in the months, years, decades ahead. Enjoy your traditional 2D Windy!!

I do not like it. Wind animations, too slow and bulky, makes the computer look and feel slow. The "missing" elements are already available on 2D. Yet you guys want to charge for those elements to Premium paid members only. Because of these two things, I will NOT be using your return of 3D. Thanks, but no thanks!! 2D is still best!!

@Korina I think this is a really cool satellite imagery, isn't it? Seems like you get 1-minute updates now. That's a feature I have wanted to see, but didn't think they would ever do it, but they did!!

@wxr said in Windy.com brings high visibility satellite layer:

Looks great. Thank you.

I like the new details of how the cloud cover is presented. It seems that the nighttime side is brighter, too, than the older visible nighttime side.

@wxr said in Windy.com brings high visibility satellite layer:

Looks great. Thank you.

The new forecast on Snow Depth; that one is very neat!!

I also re-checked on the speed of animation; turned out it works fine on the IR as well as all the other things, visible day/night, and IR + enhanced. I had to remember the little dog, rabbit button to toggle for the animation speed.

I re-checked, and I re-read what it says about the improvements, and I saw the mention of the option for changing to Fahrenheit, and I looked at the Legend, and found the toggle for Celsius to Fahrenheit. It works fine!!

How often do the "Active Fires" update? Fires have been known to rapidly intensify, sometimes in a matter of minutes, and not only intensify but rapidly expand in size. Perhaps the satellite could measure how many acres is the current fire size; how many acres totally have burned. Updates perhaps could be provided every 10 minutes just like the clouds. Speaking of which, the standard infrared seems to animate much faster than the Enhanced Infrared, so yeah, that's an improvement; the standard one also animates faster than it itself used to. Seems like the cirrus features can be seen better now on the standard IR than it used to be. Not much has changed regarding the speed on the Enhanced IR or the colors.

I DO like the cloud temperature thing the new satellite now has; it should have an option, however, to toggle between Celsius and Fahrenheit; it does not have such an option NOW. I would also like to see the temperatures that are greater than -33 C. Also, why was -33 C picked as a temp for which it can't measure above that level? If the satellite can see fog at the surface, it would be nice if the satellite could measure fog temperature on the ground. The fog temperature would give you pretty much what the dew point is on the ground; this would be especially useful in summer. I like the global forecast for any point on Earth. I haven't found the "active fires" yet.

The satellite seems to update regularly in 10 + minute intervals. When I animate it, I do not get the continuous smooth flow you seem to have in your demonstration video. The before and after pictures look the same, so you are going to have to prove it to me that there REALLY are differences in the quality of the before improvement and after improvement photos. Otherwise, I see nothing new. The animation that I get is the same 10 + time step animation that I had before the "improvements". I see no change in the color presentation.