I wrote in their forums suggesting they add air quality/pollution info and greenhouse gas emissions to their maps and it was done in about three days. I was impressed.
Not sure where the data is coming from but my area is showing arrows to the north west. We nearly never get wind from the south east and looking outside this map isn't accurate.
I have no source for this, but it might be possible that the wind it's reporting is from a higher altitude. 4k to 5k meters above the ground the wind could be moving in the opposite direction from the ground.
There is a continuous ring of ocean the whole way around Antarctica. That water can build up a lot of momentum as it is pulled around the Earth by tidal forces. At least, that's what the captain told me, I'm sure there are meteorologists around here with a much deeper understanding.
Great website, has been around for some years as windity and windytv. I guess windy will be its final name.
I usually find windguru.cz more easy to read, but windy offers a cool visualization that I think gives more context. It's really cool to check it during hurricanes.
Windy was coded by billionaire founder and owner of Seznam, which is czech search engine (and media company), one of only three other search engines in the world that still beats Google in local market.
Has he actually coded it himself? Do you have more information?
Seznam is a remarkable company. Their maps (http://mapy.cz) are second to none, my favourite feature are touristic maps which work at least within Europe.
Yeah, it was a side project he made for himself as he is a pilot and windsurfer. [1]
Though for windsurfing I find windguru.cz is more useful (also Czech(!)) and for flying its hard to beat ForeFlight.
It should also be clarified that Seznam is one of the few companies to beat Google in searches with the Latin alphabet. Local search engines are still beating Google in Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Cyrillic alphabets.
As far what I know (I read an article about him and this project in Forbes Czech), he works on this project personally with only a few other developers. Originally he made it for himself because as a hobby pilot he needs an accurate weather forecast.
In addition they did a pretty good scan (somehow) of the center of Brno to produce a remarkably nice 3D model of the city you could scroll around in, Google seems to also have this now. Here's roughly the same area from both services:
Yeah, I'm a little up and to the left of that (a couple hundred miles inland.)
While the big spinning mass offshore is the headline, the subtitle is that everything east of I-35 is going to get somewhere between a foot and two feet of rain. Not snow, water.
You know what strikes me? Look at the overland place where the winds move quickly. Those are our cities. We're living off whiffs in the aerodynamic backwaters on a world of windy metropoli.
We are happy that you like windy.com. If you want to help us with this project, then report all issues to community.windy.com We love bug reports from programmers, with all screenshots etc (Ivo)
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[ 4.4 ms ] story [ 163 ms ] threadBtw I think they use Riot.js on their front end?
It can be sourced back to Cameron Beccario's project getting some exposure in late 2013 after launch as open source. https://github.com/cambecc/earth
It's cited as direct motivation by windy: https://community.windy.com/topic/4/about-windy
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For the record: windy, launched as windity in late 2014, this was 1 1/2 years before ventusky:
"ventusky is owned by InMeteo, built to compete with windyty, which was originally a copy of my site's open source repo"
"if you're curious: http://hint.fm/wind launched Mar? 2012, e.n.n Dec 2013, windyty Nov 2014, and ventusky Jul 2016"
https://twitter.com/cambecc/status/784448346471530496
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I also recommend his talks at "The Graphical Web" 2014: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXNODLWhSbw
and openvis 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLSmNZm1e0k
Does that thing where you hit back and it cancels the loading scripts and site actually runs
Source: http://www.eniscuola.net/en/argomento/air-in-motion/winds/hi...
"The Roaring Forties are strong westerly winds found in the Southern Hemisphere, generally between the latitudes of 40 and 50 degrees."
https://www.windy.com/-41.332/174.793?-41.801,174.793,8
Which is very cool to track ocean sailing.
I have made several trackers to follow around the world sailing races/adventures.
https://gis.ee/lb/
https://tracker.ee/
Seznam is a remarkable company. Their maps (http://mapy.cz) are second to none, my favourite feature are touristic maps which work at least within Europe.
Though for windsurfing I find windguru.cz is more useful (also Czech(!)) and for flying its hard to beat ForeFlight.
It should also be clarified that Seznam is one of the few companies to beat Google in searches with the Latin alphabet. Local search engines are still beating Google in Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Cyrillic alphabets.
[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesinternational/2017/02/06/...
https://mapy.cz/zakladni?x=16.6075148&y=49.1942864&z=19&m3d=...
https://www.google.cz/maps/@49.1926496,16.6076641,133a,35y,2...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roaring_Forties
Yikes.
While the big spinning mass offshore is the headline, the subtitle is that everything east of I-35 is going to get somewhere between a foot and two feet of rain. Not snow, water.
[0]https://www.google.com/maps/@27.6570039,-97.6556344,44285a,3...
I would hope FEMA does better this time but recent track record of that agency still is not good.
https://techcrunch.com/2013/02/14/weendy-an-extreme-sports-a...
They have since pivoted to something similar, as AFAIK they didn't get enough traction.
(Especially after pressing the "play" button in the lower left).