Maybe I’m misunderstanding what you’re doing, but it sounds like you’re running a weather station, whereas windy and other sites are combining the data from many weather stations and running forecasting algorithms based on it.
> whereas windy and other sites are combining the data from many weather stations and running forecasting algorithms based on it
There may be other sites that are doing this, but I don't think Windy creates any forecasts on its own. Instead, it provides a nice graphical interface to show forecasts that have been made by others. In my US location, they offer the choice of ECMWF 9km (European Centre for Medium-Range Forecasts), GFS 22km (Basic free model provided by NOAA), NAM 5km (Regional mesoscale model run by NCEP), ICON 13km (German DWD), and Meteoblue (Swiss from the University of Basel).
This is correct - Windy explicitly says that they don't do any forecasting on their own and they don't have any meteorologists on staff. The usefulness and the quality of apps such as Windy is really a testament to how good the public (and free) weather forecast models are.
I'm not running a weather station, I'm running air quality sensors and an AIS antenna. I pull traffic, trains, aircraft, weather, and lake advisories from some public/private APIs and combine all the data. I want to track air pollutants on a local level, and see how traffic, industry, and weather play a role in the air quality here, and I'd love to be able to forecast it
