What is Windy.com?
Windy (a service also known as Windyty) is an unprecedentedly accurate mobile tool of the service of the same name, which, using animation, visualizes natural phenomena that shape weather conditions. Such a visual presentation of information contributes to maximum information content. This service is trusted by paragliders, fishermen, travelers, air pilots, official services of governments, the army, rescue services, agricultural companies and others.
How it works.
- Application Windy operates with information received from satellite and ground weather stations. Information is processed by several weather forecasting models: global scale – ECMWF and GFS; and local meaning – NEMS, AROME, ICON (for Europe), and NAM (for the USA).
- The application uses 40 criteria, information about which is verified every hour, every day and every week. This allows the service to predict the weather with an accuracy of an hour to 15 days in advance, as well as at 16 levels above the ground – from 0 to 13.5 kilometers. Such a deep analysis of weather conditions makes it possible to predict the weather in more than 50,000 airports in the world, and in more than 1,500 locations for paragliding.
- Application interface – you can personalize it: change the color and style of displaying information.
and over 1500 paragliding locations.
and over 1500 paragliding locations.
Attention.
Application Windy makes it possible to export information – to integrate the program blocks of the service into the pages of websites, blogs and applications.
With this application, you can also connect to webcams around the world. Maps can be displayed as topographic maps from Maps.cz or as satellite photos from the Here Maps service.
Windy weather service supports 39 languages, including Russian and English.
All you need to do to make you feel comfortable anywhere in the world, and at any height above the ground, is:
- download Windy ,
- configure 1) interface, 2) sources of information and 3) models for its processing,
- with the help of hourly updated data, be always two steps ahead of any surprises of nature.
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