[Weather] Gusttime?

[Tim Sailer]

On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 09:39:09PM -0500, Corey Touchet wrote:
> I'm trying to understand gust time and how it relates to reported weather.
> Say my update interval is 10 seconds and my gusttime is 50  What does that
> mean as far as gathering a gust data?
> 
> When it's set to 300 my wind/gust always reported the same on wunderground
> and cwop.  Changing it down to 50 it seems to pick up gusts now.

I believe that the NWS uses a 2 min interval for reporting 
average speed and gust. That's what I used in my software.

Tim

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