@Suty

This again?

Why does your team insist on not listening to user feedback....specifically about gallery vs list view.
Why does your team insist on gallery view and screwing up the clean utilitarian user interface.

This is maddening.

@Korina I think @evolab said it right and respectfully.
People are thrown off because we all had this magnificent product that provided a look fairly far into the future...we became dependent on it. Then one morning we log in and now it costs money. Sucks from the free users point of view - so I understand...though it would seem people could be a little better at communicating their frustrations lol

@Ondřej-Šutera Any chance you can allow users to choose between list and gallery view? Like you can on the website?
Just a thought

I would love to see the Canadian model data in Windy.
Here is a previous thread I could find discussing these data:
https://community.windy.com/topic/8774/options-to-view-the-canadian-models-rdps-and-gdps?_=1667853710295

A great option would be to allow the user to identify what they want.

1. enable/disable radar "forecast"
   • if enabled, animation can go through both actual radar and forecasted radar.
   • if disabled, eliminate the forecast data portion of the timeline, only showing the actual radar data.
2. ensure this user defined setting saves to the cloud

This option could be just like the 1h/3h forecast switch.

@burrelltb There is nothing I have found that is as easy to use and understand, visually pleasing, and has this much information at the users fingertips. They've truly done a fantastic job.
From my experience as a meteorologist, I've spent years searching for different websites and models to compare manually and all for a price. The ability to compare multiple forecast models yourself incredibly quickly and easily is amazing and shouldn't be taken for granted. Not to mention the integration of different data layers available is pretty outstanding.

Good Day,

I am writing to you to bring the concerns of many of your users to the forefront (again). With absolutely no word from the development team and seemingly no interest in hearing what we have to say, I feel it is necessary to voice my opinions on the new UI yet again.

I beg of you, PLEASE, listen to your user feedback. A lot of the v39 changes have only caused problems for users who utilize this powerful tool on a daily basis as professionals in our respective fields.

My personal opinion,
I DO NOT like the gallery view - the list view is compact, organized, easy to read and easy to use.
I DO NOT like the auto-zoom feature - I zoom out for a reason, and forcing me to keep zooming out is not a useful "feature".
I DO NOT like the crosshairs - pressing on the map to select a location, and moving the map under the "flag" to get a more precise location was perfect.
The mobile app was user friendly, ergonomic, simple, elegant, and pretty.
The mobile app is now cluttered, slower, not user friendly, not ergonomic, not simple, not elegant, and no longer pretty.

Over the years I have used this application, watched it grow and loved all the new layers and concepts you've added. I use it every single day as a premium user (on my professional email account).

With the release of v39, all you have done is caused me to stop using it on my mobile device and also caused me to stop the update on my other mobile device - because the old version is just so much easier to utilize in my day-to-day operations (as an Operational Meteorologist in Emergency Services).

There are many users on this platform who are voicing their opinions to you, the development team. There are some in particular who are doing so respectfully and professionally in order to HELP YOU create a more powerful and useable application for professionals as well as public users.

In my opinion it would be beneficial to you and your team to listen to them and take their advice and guidance into consideration.

Thank you for reading.

@Suty
Not a fan of this "feature". But now that's it's here...when I initially select the radar layer and hit the play button - it starts playing into the red section.... I would much rather it played in the white section.

Hopefully that made sense.

Not that it matters but I completely disagree with this.
Keep them separate please. Radar is actual REAL data. Please keep reported data and forecasted data separate. Enable the user to decide to allow them to combine into one continuous animation.

@MohtashimNiz when I started learning about meteorology I found these sites useful. Maybe they can help you out as well.

https://www.meted.ucar.edu/index.php
http://www.theweatherprediction.com/habyhints/

@Suty
Refreshed tab. Currently on Wind layer.
Clicked Radar layer.
Clicked through 1h, 6h, 12h - no issues.
Click "Archive" once and

I haven't click anything else except my snip tool and the error list keeps growing.

@Suty
Radar behaves the same way as Radar+ above (with timeline changing at first) but I can't get the error to show up.

@Suty

Radar+:

• Click 6h, it adjusts timeline
• click 12h, it adjusts timeline
  I can click between 1h, 6h and 12h and you can see the image reloading, the red circle around my selection and the timeline changes.
• click Archive, image refreshes but nothing pops up (no calendar)
• once I click Archive it also breaks the functionality of the 1h, 6h, 12h selections.
  NO errors on console until I close menu, open menu, close menu (until hamburger appears), and re-open I get this:
  
  Satellite:
• Click 6h, no image refresh or timeline change
• click 12h, no image refresh or timeline change
• click 1h, no image refresh or timeline change
• click Archive, image refreshes but nothing pops up (no calendar)
• once I click Archive it also breaks the functionality of the 1h, 6h, 12h selections.
  NO errors on console until I close menu, open menu, close menu (until hamburger appears), and re-open I get this:
  {

Google Chrome Version 127.0.6533.100 (Official Build) (64-bit)
regular tab.

@scubadiver12129
You're right, currently the user has to manually decide if they want to play the "forecast radar" or the actual radar.

Here's my vote https://community.windy.com/post/181799

@idefix37
TPW is a calculation of how much water vapour (specifically water vapour) is available to condense at a point within a column of air from the surface to the top of the atmosphere. This can give forecasters information on how much moisture is available in an area if a system or storm gains access to it.

WV is the "current" presence and movement of water vapour via satellite in the upper and mid-levels of the atmosphere. Which can help forecasters determine where the water vapour (or lack there of) is from and where it may be headed.

One is more of a forecast layer and the other is a satellite image. Both are useful and you can gain more information than what I've stated from each.

Anyone else please feel free to chime in or tell me I'm wrong - hope that helps!

@gregcol This is good idea.
Currently, I think, it will open the nearest hurricane to wherever you are looking on the map.

• for example, If I am zoomed in on Greenland and open Hurricane Tracker it'll show me the nearest Atlantic disturbance.

But I like this idea of having them organized by region or basin or something like that in the menu!

@reklawbl goood question.
Would love to see some water vapour imagery.
BLUE, VISIBLE, INFRA+, WATER VAPOUR (WV).

@Matthew-Angell
Yup. I personally still dislike the new crosshair ordeal.
Also dislike the image gallery instead of text like it used to be.

They have a slider found under "Display as:" and "Fcst model:" menus in the app, while the forecast panel is up. "Move the map to change the forecast location".

• This works...but only if you keep the forecast panel open...which takes up almost half the screen.

You are able to zoom out, scroll through time and change forecast models - but you are unable to change layers until you close the forecast panel, press the pin (or menu) select a layer, then press Forecast for this location, then the forecast panel opens...then you can zoom out and scroll through time and all that.

@hergon08

not sure what's confusing about this friend.... Radar and Satellite archives going back 1 year.

@alanrosenthal
Have you tried clicking on it?
Thumbs up is Moderate and it's an Air Quality Index.
After you click on an air quality station you'll see it's data over some time in the past. At the very bottom of that it reads "US Air Quality Index is based on the EPA standard, which is the highest AQI value for any pollutant."
Seems all stations are using that index - not sure if it changes to some other local index based on country.