Sorry to be a complete lamer, but I don’t understand the meanings of the dials. Wind is current instantaneous plus a red mark on Max (over what period?). Gust - is this like a peak height above average?
I know this is coming from WDs clientraw.txt, but this seems the best place to ask…
Thanks,
Alasdair.
Gust, from the French- meaning a large bar of soap…
NO? Gust is the last big blast of wind ( other than me and others on this forum who shall remain unknown :twisted: ) to come by. For example the average wind speed here is 6 mph ( the sun is beginning to heat the air now), but the last big blast (not from the local Bean Fest :roll: ) was 10 mph so that would be the Gust 10 mph, avg. wind (10 min avg) 6 mph.
Dang, the wife has things for me to do? 
Thats what I thought - so how come the average can exceed the gust?
Still don’t get it…
The average should’nt exceed the gust- might be the same… The red marker is the peak of the current day.
Julian
Actually, for my VP, the Gust is the instantaneous wind speed. It can be zero and the average still be higher at a given instant. In fact, if the wind stays at zero, you will see the average slowly dropping until it too is at zero. Of course, in N.Z., it never gets to zero unless the little propeller falls off.
Alasdair
what weather station type do you have?
there are usualy 2 wind numbers
the current (instaneous) and the average
the red marker on the gust dial should be the maximum gust for the day, that maximum gust taken from the current (instaneous/gust) reading from the weather station…but some stations only have current windspeed, and so WD had to calculate an average from the last so many current readings (on a rolling average)
Its an AAG 1-Wire - Instantaneous wind speed, direction and temperature.
Check it out: http://www.edgewatersports.com/weather/default.htm
Could be the rolling average was off because the station hadn’t been working long enough - I’ll keep an eye on it…
Thanks guys,
Alasdair.
hi
looks ok to me, just checked
you have a maximum average pointer and a max gust pointer, and the maximum gust pointer is higher than the maximum average pointer
WD calculates the average for that station type from the last series of gust (actual/current ) readings
What I should have said is the average can’t exceed the Max gust for the day - the average can be higher than the instantaneous gust.
Julian
Actually, for my VP, the Gust is the instantaneous wind speed. It can be zero and the average still be higher at a given instant. In fact, if the wind stays at zero, you will see the average slowly dropping until it too is at zero. Of course, in N.Z., it never gets to zero unless the little propeller falls off.
My Oregon Scientific works the same way