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Wind-Gust lower than Windspeed?

Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 10:06 pm
by Ettershaus
Hello,

i've installed my new Weatherstation at it's final destination.
At this place, i'll get sometimes higher values for the normal windspeed as for the wind-gust.

I use the Values actual_wind0_gustspeed_ms and actual_wind0_speed_ms.

Values from 21:00, 23. November, 2009 Image

Re:Wind-Gust lower than Windspeed?

Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 11:47 pm
by skyewright
Ettershaus wrote:At this place, i'll get sometimes higher values for the normal windspeed as for the wind-gust.
That is perfectly normal. I see it with both Davis and Oregon Scientific weather stations, and not only in Meteohub.

The sample rates differ between weather stations but in general gust measured over a short time and wind over a longer one. At a given time the average wind over the last, say, 10 minutes can very easily be higher than the gust over the last 3 seconds.

Does that make more sense now?