Windy (weather service)

Windy
Formerly	Windyty; Windytv;
Type	Private
Genre	Weather forecasting
Founded	10 November 2014; 9 years ago
Founder	Ivo Lukačovič
Headquarters	Prague, Czech Republic
Services	Mobile applications; online forecasts;
Website	windy.com

Short description: Czech weather forecasting service

Windy is a Czech company providing interactive weather forecasting services worldwide.

The portal was founded by Ivo Lukačovič in November 2014.^[1]^[2] Initially, Windy primarily focused on wind animation, but it has since expanded to include various essential meteorological parameters, such as temperature, pressure, relative humidity, cloud base, and additional panels featuring more advanced data. The wind animation component is based on the open-source project earth by Cameron Beccario.^[3]

As of May 2018 it had a team of six employees, and 300,000 users visiting the site per day.^[4]

List of weather models

Global models

GFS (Resolution 22 km)
ECMWF (Resolution 9 km)
ICON by German DWD (Resolution 6 km for Europe, 13 km for global)

Local models

NEMS by Swiss company MeteoBlue (Resolution 4 km for Europe)
NAM Conus by NOAA (Resolution 5 km for continental US)
NAM Alaska (Resolution 6 km for Alaska)
NAM Hawaii (Resolution 4 km for Hawaii)
AROME by Météo-France (Resolution 1.25 km for France, Germany and the Alps) ^[5]

References

External links

Community Windy

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Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windy (weather service). Read more

[1] "About Windy" (in en-GB). 2015-09-22. https://community.windy.com/topic/4/about-windy.

[2] Polesný, David. "Nová služba zobrazuje vítr po celém světě, vytvořil ji Ivo Lukačovič" (in cs). https://www.zive.cz/bleskovky/nova-sluzba-zobrazuje-vitr-po-celem-svete-vytvoril-ji-ivo-lukacovic/sc-4-a-176297/default.aspx.

[3] "Earth, a project to visualize global weather conditions.". https://github.com/cambecc/earth.

[4] "Aplikace Windy.com vznikla jako hobby projekt, dnes ji navštíví až 300 000 lidí denně". https://www.seznamzpravy.cz/clanek/aplikace-windy-com-vznikla-jako-hobby-projekt-dnes-ji-navstivi-az-300-000-lidi-denne-46880.

[5] "What source of weather data Windy use?" (in en-GB). 2015-09-22. https://community.windy.com/topic/12/what-source-of-weather-data-windy-use.

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