Windy.com - Weather & Radar
Weather, Radar, Hurricanes
Weather, Radar, Hurricanes
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Description
A UNIQUE WEATHER FORECAST VISUALISATION
While most weather forecasting apps rely only on free global models, Windy has gone a few steps further and invested heavily in the most accurate models available, always at the highest possible resolution, to ensure accurate weather forecasts.
Available weather models: ECMWF (9 km resolution), HRRR, NAM, GFS, ICON-D2, ICON-EU, ACCESS, AROME, NEMS
WEATHER RADAR & SATELLITE IMAGERY
A weather radar is the most requested tools for weather forecasting. To provide the most accurate radar imagery, we are constantly expanding our resources so that rain, snow, and storms don't catch you by surprise.
MORE THAN 50 WEATHER MAPS AND TOOLS
Wind (current speed, gusts, accumulation)
Temperature, humidity, pressure, dew point, freezing altitude
Rain, thunder, storms, precipitation type, CAPE-index
Weather radar and Satellite images (blue, infrared, visible)
Clouds, clouds tops, clouds base and visibility (LIFR, IFR, MVFR, VFR), fog
Waves, swell, currents
Solar activity maps (solar power, UV index, wet-bulb temperature)
Snow depth, new snow, snow density
NO2, PM 2.5, Aerosol, SO2, Ozone layer, Surface ozone, CO concentration, Dust mass, Fire intensity
Weather warnings & Extreme forecast
Soil moisture, Moisture anomaly, Drought intensity
WEATHER ALERTS BASED ON YOUR PREFERENCES
Want to know about essential weather forecasts before everyone else? Set-up a custom alert based on weather in your favorite location. Whether it's wind strength, precipitation, or temperature.
HURRICANE TRACKING, STORM TRACKING
With Windy's hurricane tracking tool, you can track a hurricane's past and projected path. Windy doesn't rely on just one model for hurricanes but will give you all the forecasts available for a given storm or hurricane.
WEATHER WIDGETS
Windy serves up a quick weather overview on your iPhone or iPad, as well as live radar. You can choose from several view sizes and types. 3-5 day forecast, live radar, live satellite, or a simple lock screen overview.
TOOLS MADE FOR PILOTS
16 altitude levels from the surface to 13.5km/FL450
50k+ Airports searchable by ICAO and IATA, including runway info, decoded & raw METARs, TAFs and NOTAMs
Detailed Airgram and Meteogram
Thermals (beta)
Meteogram: temperature and dew point, wind speed and wind gusts, pressure, precipitation, altitude cloud cover
WINDY.COM FOR APPLE WATCH
Forecast, radar, METARs, and wind information in a smal lovely package.
Use Apple Watch face by Windy.com to have it all on your screen anytime.
WINDY PREMIUM
Subscribe to Windy Premium and get the most detailed forecast.
• Better forecast: Detailed 1-hour data
• Faster service: Served from 44 locations
• Full privacy: No ads or tracking
We offer following auto-renewing subscriptions through In-App Purchases:
• Windy Premium Annual Subscription $18.99*
• Windy Premium for one year (one-time payment) $29.99*
* These prices are for United States customers. Pricing in other countries may vary and actual charges may be converted to your local currency depending on the country of residence.
Subscriptions will automatically renew at the begining of the next billing period and be charged to your Apple account within 24-hours. Unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. You can turn off auto-renew at any time from your Apple account settings, but refunds will not be provided for any unused portion of the term.
Terms of Use: https://account.windy.com/agreements/windy-terms-of-use
Privacy Policy: https://account.windy.com/agreements/windy-privacy-policy
GET IN TOUCH
Join us at community.windy.com to discuss weather-related topics, report a bug, or suggest a new feature. Or contact us at info@windy.com for any topic.
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Version History
Releasing updates every 17 days on average. Last update 4 days ago.
New
- Enhanced 15-day ECMWF model
- Enhanced 15-day GFS model
- Hi-Res ACCESS-C model for Australia (1.5km resolution)
- Satellite extrapolation for 1-hour (in Radar+ layer)
- New Notification section for all alerts
- New GUI of favorite items
Improved
- Added visibility layer for ACCESS model
- An alert can be added without adding a favorite item
- Each favorite item allows multiple alerts
- An airport can be displayed on the map (in airport detail)
- Airports plugin now includes "nearest METARs"
- Added radar coverage in Tonga
New
- Enhanced 15-day ECMWF model
- Enhanced 15-day GFS model
- Hi-Res ACCESS-C model for Australia (1.5km resolution)
- Satellite extrapolation for 1-hour (in Radar+ layer)
- New Notification section for all alerts
- New GUI of favorite items
Improved
- Added visibility layer for ACCESS model
- An alert can be added without adding a favorite item
- Each favorite item allows multiple alerts
- An airport can be displayed on the map (in airport detail)
- Airports plugin now includes "nearest METARs"
- Added radar coverage in Tonga
New
- Enhanced 15-day ECMWF model
- Enhanced 15-day GFS model
- Hi-Res ACCESS-C model for Australia (1.5km resolution)
- Satellite extrapolation for 1-hour (in Radar+ layer)
- New Notification section for all alerts
- New GUI of favorite items
Improved
- Added visibility layer for ACCESS model
- An alert can be added without adding a favorite item
- Each favorite item allows multiple alerts
- An airport can be displayed on the map (in airport detail)
- Airports plugin now includes "nearest METARs"
- Added radar coverage in Tonga
New
- Enhanced 15-day ECMWF model
- Enhanced 15-day GFS model
- Hi-Res ACCESS-C model for Australia (1.5km resolution)
- Satellite extrapolation for 1-hour (in Radar+ layer)
- New Notification section for all alerts
- New GUI of favorite items
Improved
- Added visibility layer for ACCESS model
- An alert can be added without adding a favorite item
- Each favorite item allows multiple alerts
- An airport can be displayed on the map (in airport detail)
- Airports plugin now includes "nearest METARs"
- Added radar coverage in Tonga
New
- Enhanced 15-day ECMWF model
- Enhanced 15-day GFS model
- Hi-Res ACCESS-C model for Australia (1.5km resolution)
- Satellite extrapolation for 1-hour (in Radar+ layer)
- New Notification section for all alerts
- New GUI of favorite items
Improved
- Added visibility layer for ACCESS model
- An alert can be added without adding a favorite item
- Each favorite item allows multiple alerts
- An airport can be displayed on the map (in airport detail)
- Airports plugin now includes "nearest METARs"
- Added radar coverage in Tonga
- Extended 15-day forecast by AIFS
- New Radar+ layer
- New Street-Level Heat Maps by meteoblue
- New hi-res model HRDPS (Canada and northern US)
- New hi-res Aladin model from CHMI
- Extended 15-day forecast by AIFS
- New Radar+ layer
- New Street-Level Heat Maps by meteoblue
- New hi-res model HRDPS (Canada and northern US)
- New hi-res Aladin model from CHMI
- Extended 15-day forecast by AIFS
- New Radar+ layer
- New Street-Level Heat Maps by meteoblue
- New hi-res model HRDPS (Canada and northern US)
- New hi-res Aladin model from CHMI
- Extended 15-day forecast by AIFS
- New Radar+ layer
- New Street-Level Heat Maps by meteoblue
- New hi-res model HRDPS (Canada and northern US)
- New hi-res Aladin model from CHMI
- Added radar+ overlay
- Added new functionality City heatmaps
- Added new parameters for ICON models
- Numerous bug fixes
- Added radar+ overlay
- Added new functionality City heatmaps
- Added new parameters for ICON models
- Numerous bug fixes
- Added radar+ overlay
- Added new functionality City heatmaps
- Added new parameters for ICON models
- Numerous bug fixes
- Added ECMWF AIFS model
- Added Canadian HRDPS* and RDWPS** products
- Numerous bug fixes and live improvements
*High Resolution Deterministic Prediction System
**Regional Deterministic Wave Prediction System
- Added ECMWF AIFS model
- Added Canadian HRDPS* and RDWPS** products
- Numerous bug fixes and live improvements
*High Resolution Deterministic Prediction System
**Regional Deterministic Wave Prediction System
- New sharing functionality
- New pin to home feature
- Remastered favorites
- New mobile-only plugin: map selector for changing the map background when zoomed in
- Improved radar visuals with smooth animation and enhanced readability, along with increased stability
- Added radar archive
- Numerous bug fixes and live improvements
- New sharing functionality
- New pin to home feature
- Remastered favorites
- New mobile-only plugin: map selector for changing the map background when zoomed in
- Improved radar visuals with smooth animation and enhanced readability, along with increased stability
- Added radar archive
- Numerous bug fixes and live improvements
- New sharing functionality
- New pin to home feature
- Remastered favorites
- New mobile-only plugin: map selector for changing the map background when zoomed in
- Improved radar visuals with smooth animation and enhanced readability, along with increased stability
- Added radar archive
- Numerous bug fixes and live improvements
- Added radar nowcasting
- Fixed an issue causing random logouts
- Improved the stability of widgets
- Added radar nowcasting
- Fixed an issue causing random logouts
- Improved the stability of widgets
- Added radar nowcasting
- Fixed an issue causing random logouts
- Improved the stability of widgets
- Added radar nowcasting
- Fixed an issue causing random logouts
- Improved the stability of widgets
- Added radar nowcasting
- Fixed an issue causing random logouts
- Improved the stability of widgets
- Fixed an issue causing random logouts
- Improved the stability of widgets
- Added new precip POI layer showing recent rain
- Completely overhauled station plugin
- Tons of bugfixes
- Added new precip POI layer showing recent rain
- Completely overhauled station plugin
- Tons of bugfixes
- Widget stability update
We've ironed out some under-the-hood issues to ensure smoother performance.
- Added support for iPhone landscape mode
- Fix of map center on detailed forecast view
- New lightning source by Nowcast
- New fire danger layers (Fire spread & Fire ignition)
- Revamped "Active fires" layer with new data source from NASA FIRMS
- WatchOS 10.1 Watch radar widget fix
- Tens of bugfixes
- New lightning source by Nowcast
- New fire danger layers (Fire spread & Fire ignition)
- Revamped "Active fires" layer with new data source from NASA FIRMS
- WatchOS 10.1 Watch radar widget fix
- Tens of bugfixes
- New lightning source by Nowcast
- New fire danger layers (Fire spread & Fire ignition)
- Revamped "Active fires" layer with new data source from NASA FIRMS
- WatchOS 10.1 Watch radar widget fix
- Tens of bugfixes
- New iPhone Stand by widgets
- Brand new Day OverView widget
- New LockScreen widgets
- New Radar Smart Stack widget
- New iPhone Stand by widgets
- Brand new Day OverView widget
- New LockScreen widgets
- New Radar Smart Stack widget
- New LINET lightnings (shown on radar & satellite)
- Lightning sound start improvements and other radar fixes and optimizations
- Custom colors plugin is sorted alphabetically, active layer is selected by default
- Fixed double rendering of rplanner graph
- New layers Fire Danger and Drought monitoring
- Optimization of the WatchOS application
- Bug fixes
- Brand new mobile UI/UX
- Route planner for mobile
- Small variants for all widgets
- Apple Watch Premium support and new weather screen layout
- Tons of bug fixes
- Brand new mobile UI/UX
- Route planner for mobile
- Small variants for all widgets
- Apple Watch Premium support and new weather screen layout
- Tons of bug fixes
- Brand new mobile UI/UX
- Route planner for mobile
- Small variants for all widgets
- Apple Watch Premium support and new weather screen layout
- Tons of bug fixes
- Brand new mobile UI/UX
- Route planner for mobile
- Small variants for all widgets
- Apple Watch Premium support and new weather screen layout
- Tons of bug fixes
New splashscreen
- Fix of lightning visualization
- Changed detailed forecast view
Changed detailed forecast view
- New premium features
- New Satellite archive
- Fixed Forecast widgets for iOS 16
- New Apple Watch network handling
- New colors for the widget temperature graph
- Reorganized menu in the Watch app
- Fixed issue with adding Watch Faces
- Minor fix for Apple Watch Radar animation
- Widget offline mode
- Forecast models for Apple Watch
- Locations for Apple Watch
- New Apple Watch Complications
- Bug fixes
- Widget offline mode
- Forecast models for Apple Watch
- Locations for Apple Watch
- New Apple Watch Complications
- Bug fixes
- new Lock Screen widgets
- new Premium Satellite widgets
- bug fixes
- new Lock Screen widgets
- new Premium Satellite widgets
- Premium forecast widgets
- Widgets with hourly forecast
- New hurricane tracker
- New sounding/radiosonde plugin
- Added wet-bulb temp, uv index & solar power layers
- Added radiosonde POIs
- New satellite solar filter and improved radar/satellite metrics
- Premium forecast widgets
- Widgets with hourly forecast
- New hurricane tracker
- New sounding/radiosonde plugin
- Added wet-bulb temp, uv index & solar power layers
- Added radiosonde POIs
- New satellite solar filter and improved radar/satellite metrics
- Radar bug fix
- New radioactivity stations
- New BoM ACCESS and HRRR models
- New hurricane tracker
- New configurable forecast widget
- New Radar widget
- New Drought monitoring layers
-- Soil moisture
-- Moisture anomaly
-- Drought intensity
- New subscription process
- Weather forecast for Apple Watch
- New complications for Apple Watch
- Radar view for Apple Watch
- New WatchFace
- Weather forecast for Apple Watch
- New complications for Apple Watch
- Weather forecast for Apple Watch
- New complications for Apple Watch
- Rain and thunder layer performance improvements
- Stability improvements
- UI improvements
- Tens of bugfixes
- Added Thermals layer
- UI improvements
- Tens of bugfixes
- Apple Watch support
- Increased stability and speed (through technology change)
- METAR update can be sent via push notification
- Support new GFS WAVE
- UI improvements
- Apple Watch support
- Increased stability and speed (through technology change)
- METAR update can be sent via push notification
- Support new GFS WAVE
- UI improvements
- Apple Watch support
- Increased stability and speed (through technology change)
- METAR update can be sent via push notification
- Support new GFS WAVE
- UI improvements
- Tens of bugfixes
- Minor bug fixes
- ICON: New global forecast model from German DWD
- New widget for iOS 14
- Many small improvements and fixes
- Fixed missing border issue for iPhone 12 Pro Max
* New features for premium users (such as changing default startup layer)
* Satellite improvements
* Tens of small improvements and bug fixes
* New features for premium users (such as changing default startup layer)
* Satellite improvements
* Tens of small improvements and bug fixes
* Windy Alerts as push notifications
* New high visibility satellite layer - BLUE
* Satellite optical flow
* Route planner enables to store any route as favourite (for logged-in users only)
* Tens of small improvements and bug fixes
* Windy Premium: 6 hour update intervals for ECMWF forecast
* Several bug fixes and improvements
* Improve favourites and alerts synchronization
* Significant bug fixes
* Add air quality info
* Add new layers - surface ozone, SO2
* Some minor and major bugfixes
* Minor subscription improvements
* Bug fixes
* Windy Premium subscription: Get 1h detailed forecast for most forecast models including ECMWF
* Improved webcam viewer
* Satellite images viewer improved
* Tens of small improvements and bug fixes
* Windy Premium subscription: Get 1h detailed forecast for most forecast models including ECMWF
* Improved webcam viewer
* Satellite images viewer improved
* Tens of small improvements and bug fixes
New webcams detail. Open any webcams detail and slide with your finger to check previous weather.
Small fixes
• The problems connected with the introduction of iOS 13 are now fixed, specifically the double tap and long touch
• Various UI, stability and performance improvements
- Some parts of the aps were rafactored to be much more faster
- Weather station graph display measured rain (if provided)
- Broken context menu on long tap was fixed on iOS 13
- Any website links to www.windy.com now open Windy App with particular page (Universal Links)
- Nearest weather stations for any place in the World, includes over 35.000 stations
- We are sorry, but because of technical issues with 3rd party software, we have to drop support for iOS 10
- Small fixes
- iOS 10 support
Added new global SATELLITE COMPOSITE as a new layer! Data from NOAA, EUMETSAT, and JMBSC in one composite. Let us know what you think about it!
New Extreme forecast: Windy now forecasts extreme rain, wind or temperature 7 days ahead. Protect your live or property by using Windy.com.
- Air quality forecast: NO2, Aerosol, PM2, Ozone
- Experimental layer "Outdoor map" with picker resolving approximate elevation. How do you like it?
* Windy now uses new mapping library. We have been testing the library for approx 1 month. Let us know if you will see any degradation of quality
* Detail forecast can be now extended to 10 days
* Sliding window with webcams (irritating so many people) is gone
* Simplified mobile menu
- New: "Observation vs. Forecast". Compare observed values with forecasted ones.
- New: Model AROME 1.3km in central Europe
- Many fixes and optimizations
- New: "Observation vs. Forecast". Compare observed values with forecasted ones.
- New: Model AROME 1.3km in central Europe
- Many fixes and optimizations
- Air sounding forecast
New: Check "display in UTC" in Settings to display all times also in UTC. Pilots will love this.
- New donations page. Please donate as in-app purchase to keep us going
- New Sounding Forecast (long tap on map to activate it)
- Much more improved fog forecast
- New Weather Warnings published by official weather institutions (so called CAP Alerts)
- Fixed Celsious/Fahrenheit issue on Widget (at least we hope so)
- Fixed iPhone XR,XS,X Max display
- New donations page. Please donate as in-app purchase to keep us going
- New Sounding Forecast (long tap on map to activate it)
- Much more improved fog forecast
- New Weather Warnings published by official weather institutions (so called CAP Alerts)
- Fixed Celsious/Fahrenheit issue on Widget (at least we hope so)
- Fixed iPhone XR,XS,X Max display
- New donations page. Please donate as in-app purchase to keep us going
- New Sounding Forecast (long tap on map to activate it)
- Much more improved fog forecast
- New Weather Warnings published by official weather institutions (so called CAP Alerts)
- Fixed Celsious/Fahrenheit issue on Widget (at least we hope so)
- Fixed iPhone XR,XS,X Max display
- New donations page. Please donate as in-app purchase to keep us going
- New Sounding Forecast (long tap on map to activate it)
- Much more improved fog forecast
- New Weather Warnings published by official weather institutions (so called CAP Alerts)
- Fixed Celsious/Fahrenheit issue on Widget (at least we hope so)
- Fixed iPhone XR,XS,X Max display
- Completely new WIND VIEW for any location in the world
- Finally WIDGET is here
- Map labels are now localized to your language, and they load faster
- Completely new WIND VIEW for any location in the world
- Widget is here
- Map labels are now localized to your language, and they load faster
- Spot forecast now contains "Wind" view, for kiters, sailors and other Wind seekers. Compare all available forecast model for particular place, with easy to use wind rose on the map.
- To better track the hurricanes we have also added "windAccumulation" layer.
Watch Lightning strikes online. Windy app displays real-time strikes, delayed not more than 8s. Data provided by blitzortung.org & community CC.
- Fixes and performance opts
Thunderstorm forecast: Windy is the first iOS app presenting truly global and very accurate THUNDERSTORM FORECAST from ECMWF. Early reviews have shown, that new thunderstorm forecast is so accurate, that it changes level of safety Windy.com users can have.
- New icon to access main Windy menu, just where your thumbnail expects it
- Bug fixes and optimizations
- New weather Radar in Europe, Japan and Taiwan. We are working hard to add more countries to our global radar coverage.
- Enjoy and please rate our app
• Expert mode (initialised in overlays menu) prevents folding and unfolding of quick menu.
- Webcams are now much faster and contain timelapse for the past 24 hours.
- We were not able to fix with crashing Airgram, we have reported it as iOS 11.3.1 WebKit issue. We created a hot-fix which prevents the app from falling into the loop. It also crashes on mobile Safari. The Windy code was running without any issues for more than two years.
Tide forecast!!!
- Completely new sharper map
- Better colors for weather layers
- Each city on a map now contains forecasted temperature
- Faster startup and much less data transfer than a prev. version
- New weather layers: Precipitation type, fog, thunderstorms (experimental)
- iPhone X support
- Completely new sharper map
- Better colors for weather layers
- Each city on a map now contains forecasted temperature
- Faster startup and much less data transfer than a prev. version
- New weather layers: Precipitation type, fog, thunderstorms (experimental)
- Detailed ICON-EU 7km forecast model
- Rain, snow accumulations also for other models
- Pressure isolines are now 100x faster
- Faster start-up of app
- Meteogram now contains pressure and dew point
- Weather picker stays in place during zoom
- Wind & wave directions can be displayed as text or number
- "Find my location" now creates blue point on map
- New wave forecast featuring waves-radar
- Improved meteogram
- Weather Picker is back. Just single tap on map.
New user interface
- Performance improvement when scrolling detailed forecast
- Long tap on map for new context menu
- New webcams viewer
- Distance & measurement capability
- Weather radar covering USA, Puerto Rico, Guam and South Korea.
- Pressure isolines
- Spot forecast is now sync'd with the map
Bug fixes and optimizations
Fixed bug that prevented (on some versions) to use Windy Alerts
- Bug fixes and performance optimizations
- New localized map labels
Christmas came early this year. Windy 11.20 brings you:
- Major bug fixes
- Borders and retina labels for better orientation in the map
- Better overlay colors
New User Interface, more swipe gestures
Windy Alerts are here! Define your desired wind, waves or even fresh snow conditions for any place in the world and you will never miss your BIG day.
- New map of air quality, including 72h forecast. Worldwide SO2, CO and dust levels
- Airport NOTAMs can be displayed in raw mode
- Important bug fix (erratic behavior of detail/meteogram/airgram switch)
- What was new in prev version: Map of kiting spots, new name Windy
- Windyty is now Windy and our website is at www.windy.com
- Added worldwide map of kite and windsurfing spots
- Paragliding and kiting spots can be found in search
- Performance improvement (and 3x smaller data transfer) when displaying spot forecast or labels on a map
- Small bug-fixes
- "Airgrams", new spot forecasts for pilots and paragliders
- Registration of the new user within app improved
- Significant performance improvement when displaying spot forecast or meteogram
- Each webcam now provides player with last 24hours
- As we have promised, meteogram is now part of airport detail
- Faster loading on start-up (~20%)
- New weather layers for pilots: Freezing levels, cloud tops
- Favourites now display metars in RAW mode (if used on airport page before)
- Beautifull temperature graph is now used on startup, favs and basic spot forecast
- Fixed bug: Favs are sorted alphabetically
- NAM model upgraded to 3km resolution
Completely new version that contains 100% of www.windy.tv functionality, including favs synchronization, meteograms and 28 weather layers. But not only that, new version works also on iPad.
- fixed time issue
- added new localizations (nb, fr, it, hu, ar, bg, et, zh-Hant-TW)
- fixed few small issues
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