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Re: Windy.com

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Post by sealaska » Sat, Sep 11, 2021, 1:27 AM UTC

hugoromano wrote: post #100

sealaska wrote: post #88

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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?

My grandfather was a meteorologist (taught me forecast based observation and weather station data), and I am also a first officer half of the year (as well have education in modelling for navigation). This year was rough with modelling. I use Windy to validate my forecast and navigation decisions at sea. As we sail, anemometer readings are crosscheck with the forecast from windy and mine, and windy didn't go well. So…

Huh, fascinating stuff. Do you have any recommended resources for anyone looking to learn more about "paper-and-pencil" forecasting or marine weather forecasting in general?

Re: Windy.com

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Post by yardshop » Sat, Sep 11, 2021, 1:30 AM UTC

Windy looks great, I will add it to my daily weather websites.

My primary visual weather site is the National Weather Service Enhanced Data Display.

https://preview.weather.gov/edd

It's been "*Experimental*" for several years, and the site looks kind of dated, but it provides a useful visualization of radar, satellite, tropical storms, etc, plus it runs on my old PC! =)

I also like the NWS Hourly Graph to give a better idea of for example when it's going to start or stop raining or go below freezing on a given day.

This is the forecast page for my area:

https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=43.7445&lon=-7...

Put in your own zip code, or type in town and state (sorry, just US). Then click "Hourly Weather Forecast" below the daily descriptions to get this:

https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=43.7445&lon=-7...

There's no location picker on that page though.

Re: Windy.com

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Post by andrew_ » Sat, Sep 11, 2021, 1:34 AM UTC

Been using it for over a year. It's becoming a favorite for Gulf of Mexico fisherman. More accurate than Windfinder most of the time.

Re: Windy.com

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Post by tppiotrowski » Sat, Sep 11, 2021, 1:39 AM UTC

bscphil wrote: post #113

davidjade wrote: post #84

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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.

Do you happen to be using color management by any chance? Believe it or not (because this does seem insane), disabling full color management fixed the site for me. That is, I changed the setting "gfx.color_management.mode" from 1 (manage all colors) back to 2, the default (which only adjusts the colors of images with tagged color profiles). It's bonkers, but I think I understand what's happening here, actually. Relat…

Seems dangerous that color correction would not just happen at the display driver level but would modify the values returned by ctx.getImageData. Good fingerprinting technique though!

Re: Windy.com

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Post by mavsman » Sat, Sep 11, 2021, 1:45 AM UTC

I was really hoping this was https://frida.com/products/windi which is life changing.

Re: Windy.com

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Post by bscphil » Sat, Sep 11, 2021, 1:56 AM UTC

10GBps wrote: post #118

bscphil wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you happen to be using color management by any chance? Believe it or not (because this does seem insane), disabling full color management fixed the site for me. That is, I changed the setting "gfx.color_management.mode" from 1 (manage all colors) back to 2, the default (which only adjusts the colors of images with tagged color profiles). It's bonkers, but I think I understand what's happening here, actually. Relat…

Interesting. It still works for me even with gfx.color_management.mode set to 1. Might be hardware differences or maybe desktop (compositing, etc). I'm using XFCE defaults.

If you don't actually have a profile set, Firefox will (in most cases) treat your screen as sRGB, which means that the colors won't actually be changed.

Re: Windy.com

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Post by vmception » Sat, Sep 11, 2021, 2:06 AM UTC

Now if only they can resist the temptation to not fuck up their site with an obligatory unnecessary redesign

Windy’s whole value add can be “not WeatherUnderground or Darksky”

Re: Windy.com

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Post by firecall » Sat, Sep 11, 2021, 2:16 AM UTC

Wow!

Damn, that's a fast site!

It's a amazing!

Re: Windy.com

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Post by bscphil » Sat, Sep 11, 2021, 2:19 AM UTC

tppiotrowski wrote: post #124

bscphil wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you happen to be using color management by any chance? Believe it or not (because this does seem insane), disabling full color management fixed the site for me. That is, I changed the setting "gfx.color_management.mode" from 1 (manage all colors) back to 2, the default (which only adjusts the colors of images with tagged color profiles). It's bonkers, but I think I understand what's happening here, actually. Relat…

Seems dangerous that color correction would not just happen at the display driver level but would modify the values returned by ctx.getImageData. Good fingerprinting technique though!

I agree, I wish they'd take a different approach.

Re: Windy.com

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Post by orangepurple » Sat, Sep 11, 2021, 2:42 AM UTC

I attempted to use Windy to judge surfing conditions on Oahu but the current conditions and forecast are never accurate. They might as well be randomly generated.