[HN Gopher] Windy.com: global weather website with live filters
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Windy.com: global weather website with live filters
Author : thunderbong
Score : 257 points
Date : 2023-08-19 11:41 UTC (11 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.windy.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.windy.com)
| kejaed wrote:
| They have an API too.
|
| https://api.windy.com/
| notatoad wrote:
| i'm assuming this is where my most-used map lately has been
| getting their data. air quality overlaid with fire locations
| and wind direction is super handy
|
| https://www.iqair.com/us/air-quality-map
| hggh wrote:
| 990EUR / year
| greggsy wrote:
| If you had a global product that required this level of
| coverage, you'd have global customers. This is well worth the
| cost for this type data.
| mfrommil wrote:
| This has been my go to weather site since I heard of it last
| year. I've yet to find another website or app with the variety of
| detailed radar views that windy has, and seems to be extremely
| accurate.
| youniverse wrote:
| I've been using https://zoom.earth/ but this is a nice addition.
| [deleted]
| yafbum wrote:
| Very useful for sailing, but also biking, hiking, any kind of
| outdoor activity. Turns out a certain temperature with 5 mph wind
| feels very different from the same temperature with 20 mph wind.
|
| I like this app for being forward about the weather models that
| it uses and letting you choose between them. Most regular places
| that show weather present the work as "their" forecast, but
| they're typically repackaging weather model information. No
| pretense here.
| tete wrote:
| The further I zoom in the colder it gets. :D
| junon wrote:
| Wow this is a really nice weather app. Will be using this in the
| future.
| nerdwaller wrote:
| This reminds me a lot of another project[1] that I've used for
| years, but Windy seems more responsive and has an app. They're
| close enough I wonder if the null school one was an influence.
| Definitely an impressive visualization.
|
| [1]: https://earth.nullschool.net/
| cambecc wrote:
| earth.nullschool.net predates Windy. The first version of Windy
| was based on the earth.nullschool.net repo.
| d--b wrote:
| I've been using it for a while. It's pretty good yet I think the
| accuracy of weather prediction could be better (at least in my
| part of France). Real-time rain and wind is really useful though
| and much easier to use than all weather website out there.
| GeoAtreides wrote:
| They're not doing their own weather predictions, they use
| different models. You can see them if you click compare for a
| specific location (Rouen, for example):
| https://www.windy.com/multimodel/49.44/1.09?temp,49.443,-0.5...
|
| the list is scrollable
| awestroke wrote:
| You can switch between different forecast sources
| (GFS/ICON/ECMWF etc)
| brewdad wrote:
| In my part of the US, I find the GFS model is most accurate
| in the summer months and ECMWF does better in the winter. I
| haven't really figured out which one works best in the
| transitional months.
| oriettaxx wrote:
| I think they do not make any forecast themselves, just
| aggregate sources: at least in 2018 since in wikipedia
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivo_Luka%C4%8Dovi%C4%8D I can
| read: "As of May 2018 it had a team of six employees, and
| 300,000 users visiting the site per day": pretty hard to
| imagine world forecast with only six employees :)
| carzilla wrote:
| It also has surprisingly detailed and complete hiking trails on
| it (for the Alps at least).
| kzrdude wrote:
| Openstreetmap sourced. Their android app windy maps is pretty
| good for hiking trails.
| carzilla wrote:
| I didn't know that! Windys color scheme is a lot clearer (and
| I like you see hiking trail numbers on it) but OSM shows
| hiking refuges when more zoomed out.
|
| EDIT: https://i.imgur.com/WBiptdo.png for example on OSM, vs
| https://i.imgur.com/EsZCsA8.png on Windy
| pilina wrote:
| It is based on mapy.cz [1] - Outdoor layer. It is mostly
| OSM based (plus lot of their own data for Czechia and
| Slovakia). Mapy.cz belongs to same guy, who runs Windy (Ivo
| Lukacovic [2]). IMHO it is best readable map on the
| internet and when I am used to it, I cant find anything on
| Google Maps.
|
| [1] https://en.mapy.cz [2]
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivo_Luka%C4%8Dovi%C4%8D
| JKCalhoun wrote:
| It's pretty, does anyone know if it is accurate?
| speed_spread wrote:
| I've been using the Android app (with a subscription) all
| summer for sailing. It's good enough to help me decide 72 hours
| in advance which day to go out and on what body of water. Also
| helps determining if I'll need to have another meat bag onboard
| (beside my own) to keep the mast pointing up during gusts, so I
| have a time to make phone calls.
| counters wrote:
| Windy visualizations raw or direct outputs from the weather
| forecast models run by agencies in the USA and Europe. These
| models are the "bread and butter" of operational weather
| forecasting, and are the baseline in accuracy for all weather
| forecasts generally.
|
| That being said, you shouldn't treat these outputs as gospel.
| All these models will get the big picture correct, but they
| have limitations with respect to spatial resolution. So if you
| click on the Windy map and look at your local forecast, take it
| with a grain of salt - the model doesn't resolve down to the
| scale of your backyard. The status quo is for companies or
| agencies to use statistics or ML to "correct" the forecast
| against local observations, which dramatically improves the
| accuracy of forecasts like, "What will tomorrow's max
| temperature be" or, "what is the probability it will rain this
| evening?"
| kejaed wrote:
| It's as accurate as the underlying models, from which you can
| select the one you'd like to see visualized.
|
| https://www.windy.com/articles/what-is-forecast-model-3397
| rz2k wrote:
| When you click on a forecast you can choose the model or
| forecast provider, and you can set your default with an
| account. Windy.com just organizes the data, especially grouped
| by outside activity such as surfing, sailing, parasailing, but
| uses other data sources and doesn't create its own forecasts.
|
| For my microclimate, I've found that Meteoblue is the only
| forecast that doesn't forecast the high temperature 10 degrees
| too low when there is a heat wave.
| AYBABTME wrote:
| It's one of the most trusted apps by sailors, so I'd say it's
| fairly accurate compared to most alternatives.
| andsoitis wrote:
| Well, it is showing Hurricane Hillary, which is on its way to
| Los Angeles: https://www.windy.com/?19.808,-114.170,5
| jeffbee wrote:
| I need to combine it with some other site like weather
| underground because it seems to me that windy uses past model
| outputs for current conditions, instead of actual observations.
| So it's as good as anything for the near future, but not great
| for the present.
| mwexler wrote:
| The windy.com app (at least on iOS) is quite elegant and packs a
| lot of info into the experience. Very diff from most other
| weather look-and-feels.
| voisin wrote:
| Slightly related: iOS 17 beta shows weather as forecast high as
| well the 50 year (1970-2020) average high for that day.
|
| It is a small tweak but has really made me realize how this year
| is so significantly above historical averages.
|
| Where I live in BC, Canada we have been 8-10 degrees Celsius over
| the average for much of the summer, which has made me wonder how
| native vegetation is doing considering it likely hasn't
| experienced this weather and is less adaptable than humans and
| other animals.
| [deleted]
| secondcoming wrote:
| I hope they're certain that the values are directly comparable.
|
| That, for example, the same apparatus was used, the same
| processing algos, the same measuring locations, etc.
| majormajor wrote:
| "Average high/low for this day" has been used in local
| weather forecasts on the local news for decades, let's not
| overthink it.
| IAmGraydon wrote:
| Windy is definitely the ideal weather app for geeks. My favorite
| feature is the ability to switch between the 6 forecast models or
| even see all of them at the same time.
| yetanother-1 wrote:
| It looks similar to ventusky.com
| hazelnut wrote:
| Exactly what I was thinking. Comparing it with
| https://www.ventusky.com/?p=26.8;-117.1;4&l=wind-10m it's
| almost identical.
| globular-toast wrote:
| It looks remarkably similar. One must be a copy of the other. I
| was aware of Ventusky first but doesn't necessarily mean it
| came first.
| dvdkon wrote:
| Wikipedia says Windy.com came ~2 years earlier. Funnily
| enough, they are both Czech projects.
| dang wrote:
| Related:
|
| _Windy.com: See the wind, temperature, rain and air quality
| around you_ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29882941 - Jan
| 2022 (35 comments)
|
| _Windy.com_ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28486389 -
| Sept 2021 (212 comments)
|
| _Windy.com_ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27843578 -
| July 2021 (1 comment)
|
| _Windy.com - lots of meteorological data presented well_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21873630 - Dec 2019 (5
| comments)
|
| _About Windy (2018)_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21701065 - Dec 2019 (34
| comments)
|
| _Typhoon Lands in Japan - Windy Storm-Tracking Platform_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21232332 - Oct 2019 (44
| comments)
|
| _Windy.com_ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15094639 -
| Aug 2017 (103 comments)
| b_emery wrote:
| Windy visualizations and UI are times better than the National
| Weather Service (NWS). I still like the Forecast Discussion
| however. The money weather quote today (from the NWS) is:
|
| "Precipitable water values are expected to peak on Sunday night
| at around 2.50 inches, which would be 5 standard deviations from
| the mean for this time of year."
| xattt wrote:
| Any hints on unseeing spermatozoa in their wind visualizations?
| baq wrote:
| Also NHC has the best tropical cyclone coverage. Californians
| don't need it often unless they go on a Florida vacation, so if
| you're new to this, check it out.
|
| E.g.
| https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCDEP4+shtml/191444...
| kylehotchkiss wrote:
| I saw a local (San Diego) news story teaching people how to
| read a hurricane prediction chart, coming from the east
| coast, it was very surprisingly to learn how local
| understanding those is
| pard68 wrote:
| Missouri checking in, I do not have any idea what that
| chart is. I selfishly love east coast/gulf hurricanes
| because they always mean perfect weather for us.
| tyfon wrote:
| yr.no (app and web) is from the Norwegian weather institute, it
| has wind and rain layers too and work all over the world. They're
| is also has a free api [1]
|
| I may be biased being Norwegian myself, but it's my favorite
| weather app. No spam or ads or anything either.
|
| [1] https://developer.yr.no/
| tamimio wrote:
| I use windy all the times when we fly drones, it's good.
| RektBoy wrote:
| I would like to have Ivo's head (founder of seznam.cz, windy.com
| and sold Melown startup for a few hundreds of mils )
| canvascritic wrote:
| Love windy.com!
|
| Another niche weather tool, Dark Sky, has always been a staple
| for me due to its hyperlocal rain predictions.
|
| Small anecdote: there's a unique satisfaction in creating
| something of your own. A few years back, I started a home hobby
| weather project using an Arduino to collect microclimate data
| right from my backyard. It quickly became an expansive endeavor.
| I integrated it with a backend running on Kubernetes, had a React
| Native interface for mobile updates, and to maximize performance,
| parts of data processing were done using Rust and OCaml. I was
| exploring the trade-offs of the CAP theorem in real-time. You'd
| be surprised at how often "weather inconsistencies" were just my
| nodes not agreeing on state. It was less about weather
| forecasting accuracy and more about the adventure in distributed
| systems.
|
| It ended up getting pretty expensive so scrapped it but I learned
| a lot from that project and remember it fondly
| LeoPanthera wrote:
| If you have an iPhone, the Dark Sky ultra-short-term rain
| forecasts do live on, in the built-in Weather app.
| skadamat wrote:
| I miss dark sky! https://nightingaledvs.com/dark-sky-weather-
| data-viz/
| distantsounds wrote:
| so niche it was bought out and shut down!
| rtehfm wrote:
| What do you use now that Dark Sky's APIs support has ended?
| Tomorrow.io's APIs seem interesting.
|
| https://www.tomorrow.io/weather-api/
| canvascritic wrote:
| for my specific use-case with my Arduino/K8s setup, I found a
| mix of OpenWeatherMap and the National Weather Service's API
| to be optimal. OpenWeatherMap for broader metrics and the NWS
| for hyperlocal data, especially when it came to certain
| severe weather alerts. But tomorrow.io looks pretty
| interesting, definitely worth a poc
| thefourthchime wrote:
| I'm pretty sure DarkSky's API is now called WeatherKit
| https://developer.apple.com/weatherkit/. A quick googling
| tells me you can use it with Android apps as well
| unstyledcontent wrote:
| AerisWeather is another option
| https://www.aerisweather.com/develop/api/. Disclaimer, I just
| started working with these weather nerds. It's a great place
| though, with a product and company run by developers. I
| recommend if you are looking for lots of neat features or
| need accuracy.
| kxrm wrote:
| I am now using http://pirateweather.net/ it's not quite as
| good as DarkSky (They use less models for prediction) but
| they follow the DarkSky API design so if you invested in the
| DarkSky API it's easy to swap over. I just use it to display
| weather on a few devices around the house so nothing
| commercial, if you are just looking for a straight
| replacement for DarkSky's app they have http://merrysky.net/
| hnburnsy wrote:
| I like windy but the radar is problematic, areas of blue
| typically are seeing no rainfall hitting the ground. I feel like
| the radar view is overstating the weather to look more
| impressive.
| jandrewrogers wrote:
| National weather radar is difficult to interpret. It isn't
| showing what people intuit it is showing, the relationship
| between that picture and what is going on outside is
| complicated. To make it even more complicated, weather radars
| switch modes depending on the weather conditions in their area
| of coverage which causes the underlying phenomenon they are
| measuring to change, so it isn't even consistent in that sense.
| The underlying metadata captures the operating radar mode but
| most people will have no idea what to do with that information.
|
| And then there is the fact that weather radar captures a lot of
| phenomena that are not "weather".
| hnburnsy wrote:
| Thanks for that explanation but windy consistently seems
| overstating rainfall.
| jandrewrogers wrote:
| Most rain never reaches the ground and the radar is
| measuring rain that is very far above ground level, so it
| generates false positives.
|
| Reliable at-ground-level rain measurement has to come from
| other sources, like automotive sensors, ground weather
| stations, RF propagation measurements in mobile networks,
| etc. The downside is that these often have much less
| coverage than the radar.
| Ylpertnodi wrote:
| Good companion site (app) to windy:
| https://www.blitzortung.org/en/live_lightning_maps.php?map=1...
| hggh wrote:
| Real-time lightning strikes on Windy.com [0]
|
| [0] https://community.windy.com/topic/6605/real-time-
| lightning-s...
| [deleted]
| kaliqt wrote:
| Now wait for someone to buy this and shut it down like they did
| Dark Sky.
| RektBoy wrote:
| Not gonna happen, Microsoft wanted to buy them in the past,
| owner/dev is creator of seznam.cz, one of few search engines
| with own tech, which for years had more users than Google in
| CZ.
|
| When Microsoft aimed for Bing to be better than Google, they've
| actually flew to CZ and asked the seznam.cz CEO to sell his
| company to them, he said no :D
|
| https://twitter.com/ilblog/status/1489657900687626240?lang=c...
| paradox460 wrote:
| The Czech tech sector is rather interesting. They have lots
| of local services that are seriously competitive with their
| international counterparts. Mapy.cz is an aggressively good
| openstreetmap interface
| skadamat wrote:
| Hope that doesn't happen :( I miss dark sky:
| https://nightingaledvs.com/dark-sky-weather-data-viz/
| [deleted]
| bozhark wrote:
| Would it be possible to overlay this to Goggle Earth to get a
| live weather updated sphere shaped map for the globe?
| bloopernova wrote:
| Somewhat on topic: what's a good site and/or app to get a non-
| sensationalized and understandable overview of the Atlantic
| hurricane situation. I wanted to check on the wind shear, water
| temperature, and forecast. Especially after the recent articles
| about the hot tub level temps around Florida, and others about
| how wind shear is preventing hurricanes from forming in the
| Atlantic/Gulf of Mexico/Caribbean.
| unstyledcontent wrote:
| This is a vector map with lots of fun data layers, including
| wind and wave height. You need to submit an email though:
| https://demos.aerisweather.com/
| frontierkodiak wrote:
| Tropical Tidbits is excellent.
| bloopernova wrote:
| Thank you, it is really good. I was able to find the wind
| shear forecast pretty easily, and cycle through a lot of
| detailed images. (obviously, understanding that the further
| out I go, the wider the error bars will be)
|
| Here's hoping that the wind shear continues to stay strong
| enough to protect people from any bad hurricanes. Although I
| don't know what will happen if that ocean energy isn't "bled
| off" by a few big storms?
| sixstringtheory wrote:
| Been loving it for many years. For the 2017 eclipse I was able to
| narrowly avoid some weather to get a great view. I was using
| their wind, radar and jet stream visualizations to guess as to
| where I should go. Maybe I just got lucky ;)
| s0rce wrote:
| I just went to the place with the lowest historic cloud cover
| for that time of year. I'd like to do that again for 2024 but
| it means the desert in central mexico...
| amelius wrote:
| It's good for wind, for rain less so.
| b_emery wrote:
| Rain model forecasts are there too, e.g.:
|
| https://www.windy.com/-Rain-thunder-rain?rain,34.427,-119.70...
| amelius wrote:
| Yes, but the animations/visualization is less clear than
| competing services.
| sails wrote:
| Along these lines, but the other direction and something I've
| seen developing is niche expert local forecasts. I follow a few,
| surfing, sailing etc.
|
| Surfline [1] do an excellent (paid) regional analysis, and the
| best aspect is the long range outlook where they will incorporate
| any levels of uncertainty or conflict between the various weather
| models into their analysis. To the lay person there may be "the
| forecast", but interpreting the different models and
| incorporating local anomalies is very valuable.
|
| Also excellent is the UK Met office 10 day trend[2], to get an
| idea of the uncertainty and macro patterns at play.
|
| [1] https://www.surfline.com/surf-forecasts/north-
| cornwall/58581... [2]
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLccinRLccA&list=PLGVVqeJodR...
| FL410 wrote:
| In the US we have Area Forecast Discussions (AFDs) issued by
| regional weather offices. They are a great resource and I wish
| more people outside aviation knew about them. They will
| generally include a high level discussion, detailed
| conversations about each forecast period, as well as aviation
| and marine (if applicable) considerations. Usually gives some
| great insight into what, for example "chance of showers" really
| means.
|
| Example:
| https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=OKX&issuedby=O...
| hnburnsy wrote:
| Android app that uses the NOAA and NWS APIs. No ads, no user
| tracking and includes the forecast dicussions and the
| nowcoast visual.
|
| https://nwsnow.net/
| joezydeco wrote:
| AI6YR has created a fleet of Mastodon bots that replicate NWS
| forecasts and discussions. No depdendence on Twitter anymore.
|
| https://www.patreon.com/posts/alternate-alerts-81852206
| andirk wrote:
| Great for Mastodon adoption for sure. And even better
| smarts on NWS for diversifying their alert systems,
| especially outside of a large corporate-owned platform.
| joezydeco wrote:
| He's operating outside of NWS by taking a converted feed
| from elsewhere. Iowa State I think. But he's offered to
| let the government take the whole thing over if they
| want. It's kind of important that someone does this, glad
| he stepped up.
|
| You have always been able to roll your own code as well.
| There are Python libraries to produce verbose readouts of
| FAA METAR reports, for example.
| mechhacker wrote:
| I use a different free app for forecasts, and it typically
| catches thermal winds like sea breezes with the default model.
| I still get skunked every now and then and show up at the beach
| with a board and not enough wind to go fast...
| abraae wrote:
| I'd like one of these for snorkeling. The experience depends a
| lot on weather conditions and micro-geographical factors.
|
| 1) underwater visibility around land masses is dependant on
| precipitation and swell conditions over the previous few days -
| i.e. the water will be murky if it's been pissing down and
| blowing a gale for the last 2 days. This is not so much a
| factor around offshore islands in deep water with strong
| currents.
|
| 2) In hilly areas, it's best to go out when there is an
| offshore wind, as the land mass shields the water from the
| wind, making the surface smoother.
|
| 3) people have preferences as to the direction and tide
| (incoming/outgoing/time after low/high tide).
|
| 4) It's great when the sun is out, and if you are spearfishing
| then you want the sun at your back so the fish can't see you.
|
| In short there are a a lot of factors that, in some magical
| snorkeling forecast system, could all be rolled up into a score
| out of 10 for a specific geographical spot at a specific time.
| andsoitis wrote:
| Very very cool.
|
| I'm using it to monitor Hurricane Hillary that is currently on
| its way to Los Angeles: https://www.windy.com/?19.808,-114.170,5
|
| They also have a hurricane tracker that overlays the forecast
| cone: https://www.windy.com/-Hurricane-
| tracker/hurricanes/hilary?s...
| kwelstr wrote:
| Windy also provides with embedded location webcams. Very cool
| to track the storm as it moves north.
| wingworks wrote:
| These guys also track hurricanes (by default), they also have
| handy satellite timelapses.
| https://zoom.earth/maps/satellite/#view=21.3,-119.9,4.58z/ov...
| swader999 wrote:
| I never thought I'd root for Hillary but I sure hope it goes
| fast over cali and saves the deluge for further north where it
| could help with the fires.
| scruple wrote:
| It could also potentially cause fires as cells spin off and
| lightning strikes hit areas that are at risk. IIRC this is
| how the fires at Big Basin SP started a couple years ago.
| hugoromano wrote:
| Windy is a blast and I am a subscriber, but due to recent
| historic high temperatures some weather models are failing,
| usually inaccurate by 20 knots.
| zulu-inuoe wrote:
| That's very interesting to hear. This last weekend down here in
| Florida was unbearable. I got my first sunburn in like 20
| years, just last Saturday. And I'm out in the sun every weekend
| wakeskating.
| denidoman wrote:
| Nice app but I miss realtime rain info. I prefer Yandex Weather:
| https://yandex.com/weather/maps/nowcast
|
| It has a layer selector with temperature, wind, pressure and
| precipitation.
| pilina wrote:
| Well, it has Radar (for Europe, US and some parts of the rest)
| & Satellite layer (whole world), which shows you current
| conditions. It can also show meteo-stations with current values
| of temperature, pressure and so on.
| [deleted]
| hnburnsy wrote:
| This should get more exposure: radar, cloud cover, warnings, and
| hurrricane tracks all in one...
|
| https://nowcoast.noaa.gov/
| natebc wrote:
| Thank you for posting this. It's very good!
|
| Kudos if there's any NOAA software engineers lurking.
| [deleted]
| emehex wrote:
| What is this color palette?! Starts with blue (0-5) and loops
| back to blue (60+)
| the-dude wrote:
| From Ivo Lukacovic (
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivo_Luka%C4%8Dovi%C4%8D ) of Seznam
| fame.
| paradox460 wrote:
| Windy is awesome. I contribute my weather station to their data
| set, and it's my preferred way to share said station with friends
| and neighbors
| voisin wrote:
| What weather station do you use?
| globular-toast wrote:
| I'd love to see this on a globe rather than a Mercator
| projection.
| hggh wrote:
| Click on the "3D" button on the top right corner
| joemaller1 wrote:
| Not an option on mobile (iOS)
| globular-toast wrote:
| Oh! OK then... that's really cool.
|
| It's interesting how they still need to do some fudging
| around the poles. Non-Euclidean geometry is hard, I guess. I
| wonder if that means the models are all done with Euclidean
| geometry or is it just a display thing?
| olivierlacan wrote:
| West coast folks should give the NHC's interactive map a try. The
| static map gets copied around a lot but the interactive map will
| let you see the past/current track (remember the track doesn't
| matter, it's just a best guess center, anywhere near the track is
| bad), wind speeds, earliest arrival time of winds, storm surge
| watches & warnings, wind radius, etc.
|
| It's an underused treasure, however simplistic the UI may be.
|
| See:
| https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_ep4+shtml/204534.s...
|
| You can find individual static maps (sadly very low resolution)
| here as well for Hurricane Hilary:
| https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/graphics_ep4.shtml?start#contents
| swader999 wrote:
| I like windy.com but my regular goto for weather the past few
| years has been spotwx.com. For wind, this is a lot harder to read
| but the accuracy to three days is incredible:
| https://a.atmos.washington.edu/~ovens/loops/wxloop.cgi?mm5d2...
| ako wrote:
| What model does spotwx.com use? Windy can show 6 different
| models (gfs 22km, ecmwf 9km, meteoblue, icon-d2 2.2km, Arome
| 1.3km, UKV 2km) side by side so you can compare wind forecasts
| for the next days. Windy is my goto app for wind forecasts,
| also use weatherpro.
| swader999 wrote:
| Spot shows them all and you click on to view the one you
| want. It's a much simpler interface than windy but I can see
| the day and the week at a glance and it's easier than windy
| to plan with.
| WarOnPrivacy wrote:
| Windy is as good as advertised. On a bit of a sad note, they just
| recently moved a number of their longtime standard features
| behind a subscription wall.
|
| I still have their previous android app version, the ungelded
| one. It's promising unspecified delights if I'd only just
| upgrade.
| WarOnPrivacy wrote:
| epilogue: I have an odd issue with Firefox nightly and sites
| using wind animation. I get colored, vertical bars overlaying
| the entire page. I can see a ghost of the content behind the
| bars. It's only on one device. I can't find any reference to
| anyone else having this issue. Perhaps someone else does and is
| looking for a pattern. (keywords: firefox, nightly, wind
| animation, Windy, possible HN rules violation)
| Syntaf wrote:
| Worth mentioning they also have a great webcam tool _and_ and API
| to go along with it.
|
| I added a web-cam to my community site wetrockpolice [1] to help
| climbers identify when conditions get wet out in Red Rock Canyon,
| was free and easy to do!
|
| [1]: https://wetrockpolice.com/redrock
| LeoPanthera wrote:
| I pay for Windy Premium and it's worth it if only for access to
| the HRRR model, an absurdly high-resolution, both spatial and
| temporal, forecasting model for the USA. Nothing comes close for
| accuracy of short-term forecasts for me.
| LiamMcCalloway wrote:
| Step 1 for all sailing outings. Super well integrated with most
| forecast providers... and for everyone else, better radar than
| the Weather app on IOS.
| oriettaxx wrote:
| I like the windfinder.com interface.
|
| with regards of quality of forecast I don't know: don't really
| know if they just aggregate other's data or make some kind of
| forecast themselves.
| josefresco wrote:
| The My Radar app* on iOS has a wind layer and I highly recommend
| it. We live in one the windiest parts of the world/stuck out in
| the ocean, and it's very helpful to know the wind, especially on
| a beach or outside activity day.
|
| *https://apps.apple.com/us/app/myradar-weather-radar/id322439...
|
| This is also very cool (awesome URL!), and I'll be mentioning it
| in my next blog post.
| nelblu wrote:
| Windy is my favourite app. I love to watch the movement of the
| clouds and rain/snow patterns. It is so much better than anything
| else out there. I really hope it stays true to its roots and not
| become crappy like other weather apps have become over the period
| (weather.com for instance).
| tppiotrowski wrote:
| I remember reading the history of Windy and somehow they're
| able to get quite a lot of money through donations. Here's an
| example from 2019 [1]
|
| [1] https://m.facebook.com/windyforecast/videos/windy-
| donations/...
| OfSanguineFire wrote:
| Any mention of the app ought to include the caveat that it is
| closed-source and not available on F-Droid.
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