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Windy.com
- malloryerik 9y agoI 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. Btw I think they use Riot.js on their front end?
- prh8 9y agoThey do use Riot, there was a blog post somewhere about it a bit ago.
- nvahalik 9y agoWhat model is this pulling from?
- davesque 9y agoNot sure, but there's a "forecast model" radio button in the bottom-right of the interface which you can play around with.
- aunty_helen 9y agoIn the menu it has a link explaining it: https://community.windy.com/topic/12/what-source-of-weather-data-windy-use https://community.windy.com/topic/12/what-source-of-weather-...
- Zeebrommer 9y agoThis site/app is my favorite because you can compare three models side by side: gfs, ecmwf and nems.
- plopz 9y agoNot sure why they even bother pulling gfs, its miles behind the euro.
- bhhaskin 9y agoThat is pretty cool! Although hijacking the back button is a bit annoying.
- edaemon 9y agoLooks like that isn't purposeful, it adds coordinates as a parameter after you load the page and hitting back takes you "back" to the plain homepage.
- mintplant 9y agoThey should be using replaceState instead of pushState there. An all-too-common mistake.
- doomlaser 9y agoThey hijack a lot of standard buttons. I couldn't command-L to focus into the address bar. I have a special disdain for this trend.
- hutattedonmyarm 9y agoHuh, Cmd-L works for me (Safari, latest version of Sierra)
- 11235813213455 9y agoIt's called history API, and it's not annoying, they should use more .replaceState though
- ilblog 9y agoWe check it, this seems like bug
- ganeshkrishnan 9y agoIt's the JavaScript framework that does this. Like the commenter said, you have to replace path for every view instead of push
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- nvr219 9y agoThanks for correctly saying "these data" in the menu
- penagwin 9y agoThis looks incredibly similar to https://www.ventusky.com/ https://www.ventusky.com/ doesn't it?
- n17r4m 9y agohttps://earth.nullschool.net https://earth.nullschool.net as well.
- mxfh 9y agoA bit of post hint.fm streamline history: 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 https://github.com/cambecc/earth It's cited as direct motivation by windy: https://community.windy.com/topic/4/about-windy https://community.windy.com/topic/4/about-windy --- 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 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 https://twitter.com/cambecc/status/784448346471530496 --- I also recommend his talks at "The Graphical Web" 2014: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXNODLWhSbw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXNODLWhSbw and openvis 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLSmNZm1e0k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLSmNZm1e0k
- dharness 9y agoeerily so
- ge96 9y agoExcept this one immediately runs Does that thing where you hit back and it cancels the loading scripts and site actually runs
- sparrish 9y agoNot 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.
- penagwin 9y agoI 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. Source: http://www.eniscuola.net/en/argomento/air-in-motion/winds/high-altitude-winds/ http://www.eniscuola.net/en/argomento/air-in-motion/winds/hi...
- tomfanning 9y agoThere's an altitude slider bottom right.
- 33a 9y agoLooking at this made me realize how insanely huge storms are in the southern ocean. Hurricanes and typhoons up north have nothing on that.
- stevoski 9y agoThat's the so-called "Roaring Forties": "The Roaring Forties are strong westerly winds found in the Southern Hemisphere, generally between the latitudes of 40 and 50 degrees."
- fosk 9y agoInteresting. Does anybody know why it happens?
- devrandomguy 9y agoThere 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.
- aunty_helen 9y agoWhich also raises the question about how the map projection / scaling affecs the percieved size and data layout.
- bradb3030 9y agoIt reminds me of hint.fm/wind
- seltzered_ 9y agoFWIW, I found hang gliders really enjoying this site (alongside some other obscure wind estimation sites) for planning whether to go flying.
- pmoleri 9y agoGreat 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.
- djsumdog 9y agoand if you want to see the windiest city in the world, it's in the South Pacific: https://www.windy.com/-41.332/174.793?-41.801,174.793,8 https://www.windy.com/-41.332/174.793?-41.801,174.793,8
- sccxy 9y agoThey also provide free API (http://api.windytv.com/ http://api.windytv.com/) 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://gis.ee/lb/ https://tracker.ee/ https://tracker.ee/
- aw3c2 9y agoAre there ways to use them outside JS? E.g. to get georeferenced video?
- dejv 9y agoWindy 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.
- intruder 9y agoThe other two being Yahoo Japan and baidu?
- raquo 9y agoAlso Yandex (Russia)
- tasuki 9y agoHas he actually coded it himself? Do you have more information? Seznam is a remarkable company. Their maps (http://mapy.cz http://mapy.cz) are second to none, my favourite feature are touristic maps which work at least within Europe.
- paulgerhardt 9y agoYeah, 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. [1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesinternational/2017/02/06/can-a-czech-millionaire-sell-wind-and-snow/2/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesinternational/2017/02/06/...
- tricoder42 9y agoAs 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.
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- abtinf 9y agoIs there a name for the hotspot wind system south of Africa? That looks intense.
- ragazzina 9y ago"Roaring Forties" and "Furious Fifties". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roaring_Forties https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roaring_Forties
- Stratoscope 9y agohttps://www.windy.com/?24.087,-93.604,5 https://www.windy.com/?24.087,-93.604,5 Yikes.
- karlkatzke 9y agoYeah, 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.
- 24gttghh 9y agoDo you know what they grow around Corpus Christi[0]? Looks like a lot of rich, dark soil that is about to be washed out to sea... [0]https://www.google.com/maps/@27.6570039,-97.6556344,44285a,35y,348.75h/data=!3m1!1e3 https://www.google.com/maps/@27.6570039,-97.6556344,44285a,3...
- loblollyboy 9y agoThis is pretty, but I don't think it is going to be 35 C in the North Atlantic any time soon.
- JumpCrisscross 9y agoYou 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.
- ClassyJacket 9y agoHoly hell please give me my back button back.
- ge96 9y agoYeah browser push state for days
- staticelf 9y agoMy friend that works in the aerospace industry uses Windy all the time.
- stanlarroque 9y agoIt reminded me of this awesome project: https://earth.nullschool.net/ https://earth.nullschool.net/
- bojanvidanovic 9y agoAgree. I saw many projects like "Windy" based this.
- Shivetya 9y agowell that would be the first major hurricane to strike the US in over ten years. hopefully people aren't too complacent and still take them seriously. I would hope FEMA does better this time but recent track record of that agency still is not good.
- ilblog 9y agoWe 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)
- ge96 9y agoOh shit what's going on by Texas
- StavrosK 9y agoThat's funny, as some friends of mine made the exact same thing years ago, and it even had a similar name (Weendy): https://techcrunch.com/2013/02/14/weendy-an-extreme-sports-app-that-merges-crowdsourced-and-actual-weather-data-gets-240k-led-by-archimedes/ 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.
- amelius 9y agoIs it just me or is this website really slow? (Especially after pressing the "play" button in the lower left).
- sghiassy 9y agoIt was fast for me on my iPhone
- mourner 9y agoGreat project! I recently wrote a detailed technical post on how to implement a similar visualization with WebGL — check it out: https://blog.mapbox.com/how-i-built-a-wind-map-with-webgl-b63022b5537f https://blog.mapbox.com/how-i-built-a-wind-map-with-webgl-b6...
- ilblog 9y agoWe use a lot of @mourners node libs on backend
- CharlesDodgson 9y agoAs someone who works with mapping data and web based maps regularly, this website is excellent in terms of usability. The ease of switching overlays, adding symbols, saving selection, adjusting the map are all excellent and intuitive. The ability to drill down on symbols added in a smooth and sensible way is excellent. This is how you make web maps for specialist data!
- subroutine 9y agoIt's going to be hot in SF today... https://imgur.com/gallery/NiMJk https://imgur.com/gallery/NiMJk
- sccxy 9y ago240° is wind direction
- amai 9y agoFormerly known as windyty: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=windyty&sort=byPopularity&prefix=false&page=0&dateRange=all&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?query=windyty&sort=byPopularity&pref... They get their data from https://www.meteoblue.com/ https://www.meteoblue.com/ .
- Dayshine 9y agoThe UI is very small on a big screen. The entire right hand legend and menu is taking up around 10% of my screen width, so the button are tiny!
- SeanDav 9y agoThis site just went straight to my bookmark list, brilliant. Small criticism: Every time you move it creates new page entry in the back button list, so once you have moved around a bit you can't use browser back button to easily go back to previous website.
- rmrfrmrf 9y agoThat was my same thought. This is one of the few rare times I don't think using the browser history makes sense for an SPA (at least, in its current implementation).
- jackschultz 9y agoInteresting note, I play a lot of golf competitively, and they've basically recently allowed players in tournaments to use phones (obviously players don't do that much or if at all, concentration and all that). But the one specific rule is that players can't use their phones to check the weather, and even more specifically the wind direction. Wind makes a huge difference on the course, and being able to know the exact direction of the wind where the ball is flying would be really helpful. Other part is being able to know if the wind shifts during the round. Before you start you can check the wind direction, but if that changes, you could be out of luck. This seems like a perfect golf aide, so much to the point where it's a penalty in a tournament.
- brk 9y agoIt does not seem precise enough to give you localized condition on that scale. I tried zooming in to see how it was reporting wind and waves I can see from my current location, and there was simply no data once you got down to a range of a few miles.
- jackschultz 9y agoA range of few miles doesn't make that big a difference on the golf scale. Really, the only deep down information I'd want to have is like down to the 16 directions on a compass. These courses have maps of the holes and you're able to draw arrows on the map of the general wind. The key part of this site seems like I'd be able to check back every few holes to see if it's shifted enough to change the arrow. When checking for a local course, I can see enough to where I'd trust it, but then again, having more correct wind information would be better.
- lllr_finger 9y agoEven the best models commonly available will only operate at a 3km resolution, which realistically isn't that much more useful than a 10km or 20km grid for ageostrophic winds (wind not affected by the ground). A model might show you have 8kt winds out of the SSE, but things like water, treelines, hills, etc. could have a large impact on a golf ball. It'd be easy enough to look at the forecast for a 3km model like the HRRR, but the challenging part would be guessing at how the various features on a course interact with that forecast.
- PaulHoule 9y agoWhat I can't get over is the speed. Ever since tile maps have become the norm, most of the weather radar services are unbearably slow on my DS(Hel)L connection. This loads fast. I wonder what they are doing right.
- stephenhuey 9y agoYes, the hurricane looks pretty: https://www.windy.com/?29.770,-95.363,5 https://www.windy.com/?29.770,-95.363,5 I noticed Windy.com took me straight to this spot due to my location near the approaching storm, so in case you're in a part of the world with a little less going on right now, check out the winds coming to Texas.
- PaulHoule 9y agoThat storm is looking serious. Not only is it a powerful storm but it looks like it is going to hang over Corpus Christi for maybe 2 days and then slowly head up the Gulf coast for 3 days after that. They are talking 3 feet of rain and that is a fairly flat area so I can only hope people can get away from there.
- LeifCarrotson 9y agoOr, conversely, what are the tile maps doing wrong? I have a 100 Mbps connection and tile weather radar maps are some of the poorest experiences on the web with that speed, too. Why can high-resolution, high-framerate video load fast, but not a map?
- PaulHoule 9y agoI think part of it is that Google Maps and Bing Maps do not have a sense of urgency. So for one thing, the base maps are poorly performing.
- karboosx 9y agoVery similar to: https://www.ventusky.com https://www.ventusky.com
- godelski 9y agoI was just going to say that. Because I found that on HN. I had also found this here https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/ https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/ (before ventusky)
- needz 9y agoTrying to back out of this website after zooming in is really frustrating.
- rodolphoarruda 9y agoThanks to this website I discovered that procrastination can reach new levels... there's no limit to it.
- crosbyar 9y agoOther than the whizbang interface there's nothing really innovative going on here as far as actual science... Same with all the other me-too sites that use that same streamline animation code. Some of the visualization is downright misleading, but whatever. The ventusky wave animation is awful and physically incorrect.
- rthomas6 9y agoLooks like they are using http://leafletjs.com/ http://leafletjs.com/
- bmm6o 9y agoThis has been my go-to for sailing conditions for a while. I used other sites before it (Predict Wind, Surf Watch), but Windy is fast and responsive and usable on a phone. The data for sites like these all ultimately come from the same sources (the big weather models) so the differentiators in this space are mostly in the user experience.
- ilblog 9y agoJust now we have launched weather radar layer: https://www.windy.com/?radar,27.863,-96.237,8 https://www.windy.com/?radar,27.863,-96.237,8
- watz 9y agoI wanted to build something similar for surfing forecasts a couple years ago, but couldn't find any decent data source... Where is the data coming from? Is this publicly available?
- JeffPeters 9y agoWhy do you only upload the latest three atmospheric models only one time (0000 UTC) per day?