The Windy is addicted kiter, helicopter and jet pilot who seeks the wind, waves and snow that most constantly of disasters. Since programming is my passion, I coded Windyty.com in 2014 as my pet project. The original version was highly inspired by the products from the Swiss company Meteoblue and other project called "Earth", that displayed animated wind particles on the globe. I have completely rewrote open source codes of Earth and also made an agreement with al the products that time. And thus Windyty was born and renamed to Windy a few years later. My goal is to keep Windy small and fast to be accessible in the most remote locations.
In 2014 Windy was born, under its former name Windyty.
In 2015 the Windy team grew to a few more programmers: Milan and Tomas. We use GFS and NEMS as the main forecast models.
In 2016 we launched Android and iOS mobile Apps and we renamed Windyty to Windytv, which turned out to be a big mistake. As one of the few companies in the world, we have the use of the ECMWF forecast model, which is recognized as the most accurate model available.
In 2017 our team grew to 5 people and we have changed the name to Windy with nice and short address www.windy.com. During hurricane season Windy become major source of weather information for governments, institutions and individuals in affected areas of virtually saving the lives.
In 2018 we launched a new European weather radar, thunderstorm forecast and many other major innovations in 2019 we have launched a new Satellite overlay, route planner, donations, new iOS/Android app Windy Maps and "reality vs. forecast" feature. We have also integrated webcams.travel and lookr.com websites into the Windy.
In 2020 we have launched new Air Quality overlay, optical flow and enhanced satellite layer. Much more better and detailed 1 hour forecast data, updated in a times and becomes available as Windy premium to our goal is to provide the best weather forecasting service in the world.
