[Xastir] Re: Wind Gusts

[Tom Russo]

On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 09:42:28PM -0800, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <archer at eskimo.com> flavor, containing:
> 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.

Also, some weather stations (like the cheap-o LaCrosse station I have) don't
return a gust value --- only the speed.  If xastir didn't compute it directly,
there'd be no gust information from stations with these gadgets.

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