Windy (weather service)

Windy
Formerly
  • Windyty
  • Windytv
Company typePrivate
GenreWeather forecasting
Founded10 November 2014 (10 years ago) (2014-11-10)
FounderIvo Lukačovič
Headquarters
Prague, Czech Republic
Services
  • Mobile applications
  • online forecasts
Websitewindy.com

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

The portal was founded by Ivo Lukačovič in November 2014,[1][2] initially focusing on wind animation. 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 visited 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)
  • Meteoblue AI Global Model

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

  1. ^ "About Windy". Windy Community. 22 September 2015. Retrieved 29 March 2018.
  2. ^ Polesný, David. "Nová služba zobrazuje vítr po celém světě, vytvořil ji Ivo Lukačovič". Živě.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 31 July 2016.
  3. ^ "Earth, a project to visualize global weather conditions". GitHub. Retrieved 29 March 2018.
  4. ^ "Aplikace Windy.com vznikla jako hobby projekt, dnes ji navštíví až 300 000 lidí denně". seznamzpravy.cz. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
  5. ^ "What source of weather data Windy use?". Windy Community. 22 September 2015. Retrieved 25 February 2022.