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Offline utahweatherbear

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Vantage Vue wind questions/issues/WUHU
« on: August 30, 2010, 11:30:39 AM »
been getting quite a bit of winds here of late, nice test for my new vue...and
have noticed something strange. seems the peak wind on the console is reading
higher than what WUHU is showing, mainly after 20 mph or so, and the difference
gets larger the stronger the wind. just in the last few days, WUHU showed peak
gusts of 46, 61, and 69 mph...while the console reported 48, 63, and 72 mph.
don't have any wind offsets, so not sure what's up or which one is correct? I
would assume the console would be, but who knows. any thoughts?

also as a side note...noticed the high wind speed and wind gust are always the same
when transfered to WUHU, used to be the gust would always be higher. also, is it
normal for davis to round wind speed to the nearest whole mph? my other stations
would give wind readings in 1/10ths mph...(20.4, 33.7, etc.).

thanx!

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Re: Vantage Vue wind questions/issues/WUHU
« Reply #1 on: August 30, 2010, 01:19:55 PM »
I also noticed that when I used WUHU. I have been using Cumulus for 2 months now and the reporting is dead on with my console. You may want to try that to see if it fixes your reporting issues.
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Offline Randall Kayfes

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Re: Vantage Vue wind questions/issues/WUHU
« Reply #2 on: August 30, 2010, 02:19:58 PM »
You  are not alone WU does the same to my wind gusts never have been accurate - don't know why either take care.



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Re: Vantage Vue wind questions/issues/WUHU
« Reply #3 on: August 30, 2010, 02:27:37 PM »
What I've noticed is that WU only shows my data every 5 minutes (as far as history) even though I'm sending every minute. I think they miss somethings in between. But I don't use WUHU either so I'm not sure.