[Xastir] Re: Wind Gusts

[Clay Jackson]

Yeah, but the problem there is that some stations (like the Davis)  
provide data as an "instantaneous" deal; so, if the gust comes  
between reports, it won't show up.  That's why I changed the  db2APRS  
code to capture the 10 minute gust value.

Clay
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On Dec 14, 2006, at 9:42 PM, Curt Mills wrote:

> 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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