[Xastir] Re: Wind Gusts

[Curt Mills]

On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Clay Jackson wrote:

> Well, I think I found the issue:
> 
> In wx.c, at line 427, in cycle_weather, wx_speed, not wx_gust was getting
> passed to compute_gust.
> 
> Here's the diff:
> 
> 427c427
> <             computed_gust = compute_gust((float)atof(weather->wx_gust),
> ---
> 
> >             computed_gust = compute_gust((float)atof(weather->wx_speed),
> > 
> 
> if you look at my data going to findu, it's now reporting much more reasonable
> gust (32MPH so far this evening, the power's out and the storm "center" is
> still several hours away).

I believe the idea is that we're computing the gust ourselves from
the wx_speed value due to averaging time mismatches between the
weather stations and the spec.  I think the wx_speed value there is
intentional.

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