Version 50.1 brings the weather warnings that matter most into Live Alerts, and lets you keep watch not just over where you are, but anywhere you're headed.

Highlights
🌀 New Live Alerts on Tropical Cyclones & CAP Alerts for any location
📍 My Alerts with new AQI and Pollen alert types
🎈 Wind Trajectories plugin remembers your last settings
🏠 Home button respects your zoom preferences
🏷️ Layer description tooltips let you know exactly what you're looking at

Live Alerts: Tropical Cyclones & CAP Alerts

Real-time warnings for the storms, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, and fire risks

Live Alerts are the automatic, real-time hazard warnings Windy sends straight to your phone for weather that needs your attention now or in the coming days. First introduced last year with Live Storm and Heavy Rain Alerts, in the newest version of Windy, they gain two powerful new types and one big new capability.

🌀 Tropical Cyclones

Each alert gives you the storm's name, category, and the day it's forecast to reach your current or chosen location. You're notified as soon as any forecast model predicts a tropical cyclone (hurricane, typhoon) heading your way: one alert per forecast day, never twice for the same one. Tap the notification for full storm details, which you'll also find inside Windy under the Hurricane tracker layer.

📢 CAP Alerts

Official government warnings (tornadoes, floods, storms, wind emergencies, and more) issued by civil protection authorities via the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP). Windy checks your current or chosen location every 20 minutes and alerts you just once per warning, with no repeat pings, whether it's for today or several days out. Tap the notification to read the full CAP detail, found inside Windy under the Weather warnings layer.

How to Turn Live Alerts On

Open the Windy app → Menu → My Alerts, and switch on the Live Alerts you want. They're location-based, so grant location access and stay online to receive them.

Your current location

Custom location

📍 Any location, not just where you are

Until now, Live Alerts followed your device's current position. Now you can set one for any fixed place on the map, so you're warned about a coastline you're sailing toward, an airport you're flying into, or the place your family lives, before you ever get there. Your current position now also shows its place name, so a glance tells you the alert is watching the right spot.

Live Alerts you may already know:

⚡ Storm Alerts

Lightning-storm warnings with a 5 to 30-minute heads-up. Windy tracks where lightning is striking and combines it with storm-cloud movement to catch approaching storms, alerting you when one is within 5 km, before it's overhead.

☔ Rain Alerts

Radar-based precipitation alerts: whether it's raining at your location right now or up to an hour ahead, with the expected intensity and type (rain or snow).

Built for sailors, pilots, coastal residents, and anyone who travels into weather they need to see coming.

Coverage varies by region

Storm Alerts rely on lightning-detection networks, Rain Alerts on radar coverage, and CAP Alerts on whether your local authorities publish official warnings. If a layer's data reaches your area, the matching alert does too.

Live Alerts are the hazard warnings Windy sends you automatically (storms, rain, cyclones, and official CAP warnings), while Forecast Alerts are the custom alerts you set yourself for specific conditions at your favorite places. Live Alerts are set up and delivered in the Windy mobile app (they aren't available on the desktop site), and notifications currently arrive as push notifications on your phone. To create and receive any alert, you'll need to be signed in to your free or Premium Windy account.

⚠️ Stay safe, and stay officially informed
Windy's Live Alerts are an early, helpful heads-up. They're a recommendation, not an official warning. They don't replace the guidance of your local authorities and emergency services: always treat official advisories as your primary source and follow their instructions. Live Alerts are here to complement those channels, never to substitute for them.

My Alerts: One Home for Every Alert

Set it, find it, manage it, all in one place

My Alerts is where all the alerts you create live, listed by place, ready to edit or delete anytime. From the menu, pick any location and set a custom Forecast Alert, or a Live Alert.

🌫️ New AQI & Pollen alerts (Forecast Alert)

Add air-quality and pollen alert types to any place you watch, and get notified when forecast conditions cross your threshold. It builds on the Air Quality Index layers we introduced last year (powered by CAMS), turning forecast data into alerts you can act on. Pollen alerts are currently available for Europe only.

📋 All your alerts in one list

See every active alert in a single view, instead of hunting through settings.

Find it under My Alerts in the menu.

Smaller refinements you'll feel once you're logged in

Log in with a free Windy account, and these settings are saved for you.

🎈 Wind Trajectories remembers your settings

Your last Wind Trajectories settings are now tied to your account and will be ready the next time you open the plugin.

🏠 Home button respects your zoom

Tap Home and the map returns to your start-up location at the zoom level you prefer. Logged in to Windy? Your preferred zoom is saved with your home location. Set it once, and you're done: no more re-zooming every time you tap Home.

And for everyone, signed in or not, new layer description tooltips tell you exactly what each layer shows, plus plenty more under-the-hood fixes you'll feel without us pointing them out.

🚀 Get the most out of Windy

Almost everything new here, from Live Alerts and My Alerts to your saved home location, comes to life once you're signed in. A free Windy account takes moments to set up and unlocks alerts, favorite places, and settings that stay with you across the app. And when you want more frequent updates and hour-by-hour detail, Windy Premium takes it further.

Tried the new alerts? Have feedback or ideas for what should come next? Let us know in the comments. For technical or Premium subscription issues, visit community.windy.com.

Thanks for being part of the Windy community. Stay safe out there, and enjoy the update. ⛅