Met Office relents

[franksingleton]

High resolution Met Office forecast on Windy.com. This is a significant change of heart, to be welcomed.

 

[franksingleton]

Annoyingly, for me at least, it is not on the Windy IOS app, only on the website. It is on the Ventusky app but only for a limited area.

 

[r_h]

I appear to have it on the Windy iOS app (with a paid subscription)

 

[franksingleton]

I appear to have it on the Windy iOS app (with a paid subscription)

Thank you for that. I object to having to pay when I can get the French AROME, DWD ICON-D2, US HRRR all free and UKV free on the website but only paid for on the app.

 

[arc1]

Available on android predict wind app without a subscription.

 

[stranded]

Thank you for that. I object to having to pay when I can get the French AROME, DWD ICON-D2, US HRRR all free and UKV free on the website but only paid for on the app.

I think it’s a bit of a bargain to have them all to hand tbh.

 

[franksingleton]

My point is that Germany and France make their detailed models available to all third parties, eg Windy, Ventusky, OpenSkiron etc at no charge. Spain puts detailed model data free on its own website as does Ireland, Sweden and several other countries. But, not the UK, apparently. The UK Met does put its detailed rainfall data online in an excellent app combining actual radar rainfall data and predictions. Why not wind?

 

[LittleSister]

My point is that Germany and France make their detailed models available to all third parties, eg Windy, Ventusky, OpenSkiron etc at no charge. Spain puts detailed model data free on its own website as does Ireland, Sweden and several other countries. But, not the UK, apparently. The UK Met does put its detailed rainfall data online in an excellent app combining actual radar rainfall data and predictions. Why not wind?

Because it's more of a money spinner?

 

[Boathook]

The met office on the app could also show the jet stream on it. They have the data already.

 

[westhinder]

Unless my interpretation is wrong, I seem to have the UKV 2km on my Windy app on Iphone (free version). I can select it and the visualisation looks ok

 

[franksingleton]

Unless my interpretation is wrong, I seem to have the UKV 2km on my Windy app on Iphone (free version). I can select it and the visualisation looks ok

Thank you. I could not see it there a few days ago. I think that my main problem with Windy is that it is clunky and I am rather clumsy using my iPad. I also have AMD, not as bad as many but I need to use Accessibility to read the small print. Windy is obviously paying the Met Office and, so, can provide more data options. Ventusky, which I find a much clearer presentation, much easier to use is only getting Met Office data that is freely available. I am not aware that other countries charge for use of their model data by such as ZyGrib, Ventusky or any of the various GRIB apps. I think that the Met Office is more constrained by HM Treasury rules in defining what can be made freely available and what is charged for both by OGDs, commercial firms and private users.

 

[r_h]

I think that the Met Office is more constrained by HM Treasury rules in defining what can be made freely available and what is charged for both by OGDs, commercial firms and private users.

That's certainly my understanding - as far as I'm aware it's a policy that's decades old, which frustratingly means a lot of the MetOffice's excellent data is difficult or impossible to access....
...whereas that bastion of socialism across the Atlantic {note the irony mode] makes weather data free for all, on the basis that if taxpayers have funded it, then it ought to be available to them.