"People who look at forecast maps" are way more confused about the weather actually happening than those that don't. FTFY ;-)

My local forecasts have predicted rain for multiple days in a row, and then those days arrive to sunny skies. The same day forecasts get updated to reflect the lack of rain, and then mid-to-late afternoon storms after zero prediction of them. This summer has been a bad luck streak for forecasters.

Windy makes a compelling visualization of data that is often totally wrong and misleading. Their presentation of PM2.5 concentrations in California right now is very pretty and also off by about an order of magnitude versus actual sensor readings. I will continue to prefer the much uglier but correct presentations from NOAA themselves, or the incredibly slow but rich and accurate data from wunderground.

Windy doesn’t make forecasts, rather it visualizes output from forecast models.