Love this site! Saved me a lot of trouble ahead with preparation of the last few hurricanes and tropical storms in the NY area!
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#82I have been using the similar site https://www.ventusky.com for a few years now.
There's also https://www.predictwind.com/ which is a (very expensive) commercial service a lot of boat/yacht folks use for planning. I believe they also have some utilities for delivering compressed forecast data over satellite link as well.
PredictWind has free tier that displays something like 6 forecasts on one screen, app or browser. Def my favourite software and it’s kiwi made!
Their premium tier is for automatic routing and can get expensive for budget sailors.
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#83I'm surprised that no one has mentioned Windguru.cz yet
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#84The wind animation doesn't work at all for me in Firefox (on Linux, version 91). I see a few large animation "sheets" where the wind is moving in the same direction, depending on where on the map I look. Works in Chromium. Anyone else have this problem? Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/eLyQa6X.jpg
Doesn't work for me on Firefox in Windows either. I've tried a number of things and it seems it just doesn't work on Firefox at all.
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#86Windy is great. The map is appealing, but be sure to check out the forecast view for a particular location. Also make sure you try different locations. I'm in the Salish Sea on Orcas Island in the San Juans and because we have a lot of topography here mixed with ocean, we have a lot of local effects, contour winds and so on and there are big differences between locations. Also note that Windy can get it wrong. I grew…
Another thing to consider is the difference between a global scale forecast mode (GFS, ECMWF) and a mesoscale model (HRRR, NAM, RAP). The later uses a much smaller grid size and can take into account terrain. In a place the the San Juan's (and the PNW in general), a lot of the weather patterns are coastal terrain driven so these models can be much more accurate. They catch is, they don't see out of far due to their higher computational complexity.
Here is a great resource to read up on the various models (there are far more than Windy offers): https://luckgrib.com/models/
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#87I have been using the similar site https://www.ventusky.com for a few years now.
The UI for Ventusky is much better too.
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#88I was paying for it, but didn't renew the subscription, this year in 90 days that I needed forecast was way off in 42 of them, and trying all their different model offers. Maybe next year I will resubscribe, depending how their models forecast over Fall and Winter.
Are you using a different weather app or website that is more accurate?
My understanding is that windy primarily just shows data from different forecast models, so isn't your issue really with the third-party models, not with Windy's weather client?
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#89In the future, I really look forward to owning a globe that shows time-lapse clouds in very high resolution.
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#90There is also http://hint.fm/wind/