Windy (weather service)

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

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

The portal was founded by Ivo Lukačovič in November 2014.[1][2] Initially, the portal focused on wind animation, currently there are other basic meteorological parameters such as temperature, pressure, relative humidity, cloud base and additional panels with more advanced data. The wind animation is based on the open sources project of Cameron Beccario earth.[3]

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) [4]

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. "What source of weather data Windy use?". Windy Community. 22 September 2015. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
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