Windy (weather service)
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| Formerly | Windyty, Windytv |
|---|---|
| Type | Private |
| Genre | Weather forecasting |
| Founded | November 1, 2014 |
| Founder | Ivo Lukačovič |
| Headquarters | Prague, Czech Republic |
| Services | smartphone weather applications, online forecasts. |
Number of employees | 18[citation needed] |
| Website | www |
Windy is a Czech company providing interactive weather forecasting services worldwide.
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 earth.[3]
Weather models' list[]
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[]
- by Swiss company (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)
- by Météo-France (Resolution 1.25 km for France, Germany and the Alps) [4]
References[]
- ^ "About Us, Windy Community". Retrieved 2018-03-29.
- ^ Polesný, David. "Nová služba zobrazuje vítr po celém světě, vytvořil ji Ivo Lukačovič – Živě.cz". Retrieved 2016-07-31.
- ^ "Earth, a project to visualize global weather conditions". Retrieved 2018-03-29.
- ^ Weather models in use
External links[]
Categories:
- Meteorological companies
- Weather prediction