@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.

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.

@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

@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/

@idefix37 @suty @surfandrew
In addition to this,

When I click any panel that changes the "Source" and then back to Basic - it will default the source to Meteoblue.

• example. clicking on Pollen & Air Quality changes source to "CAMS", when I click back to Basic, the source is now Meteoblue.

@idefix37 said in Settings on location fcst - misbehaving on desktop:

when clicking a place name

I don’t see a similar behavior.

The must have fixed it (which is fantastic, thank you), because I also don't currently see this behaviour.
My guess is the background issue is the same though. My uneducated guess lol

@Suty
I just clicked on a random spot in the Atlantic Ocean.

It does this whenever it's looking for a default model to display...doesn't look at my setting at all just assumes default model.

My thoughts are this is the same issue we are having with it ignoring my settings when clicking a place name (instead of a random spot on the map) to look at the forecast panel...always just goes back to your (Windy's) defined default model (I assume you changed it from ECMWF to Meteoblue AI) and ignores the users setting.

@luca-magni
Windy visualizes guidance model outputs for us users to consume.
There are plenty of reasons why a certain model can do well now but do crappy later and vise versa....but Windy isn't the cause of any of it.

Maybe you were looking at one model then and a different one now?

@zrated
I just found this on the internet...

Could explain it.

@DL-Photo
The Rapid Refresh Forecast System (RRFS) is NOAA's next-generation weather model designed to completely replace the legacy North American Model (NAM) and several other regional modeling systems in October 2026.

It's because it's going the way of the dodo, I think I read somewhere on the forum that they are planning to implement the RRFS soon.

@JLktbrder
There's a new setting for that.
https://community.windy.com/post/233504

@suty
We're wondering if this is intended behaviour or maybe something that can be fixed.

When selecting somewhere on the map (not a place name) the model I have selected stays the same.
When selecting a place name on the map the model changes to whatever I have saved as the "Source" model.

Would be great if both when a place name and anywhere on the map was selected, it kept whatever model is currently selected.

Hopefully that makes sense.
Thanks!

@peterhanns
This is the first time I've ever noticed this....and I agree, very annoying lol.

When not clicking a place name (just somewhere on the map) it keeps whatever model you have selected and does not revert back to the default "Source".

Likely why I never noticed it, I don't click place names very often myself. So I can't say if it's new behaviour or not.
Interesting...

@Mandy-Lindsay
Did you try clicking this to change units?

@louich_migdion
Tough to achieve because guidance models don't output drawn frontal boundaries and Windy doesn't employ a team of meteorologists to draw them for the globe.

And the computer drawn ones are awful still in my opinion :)