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Wind Speeds Rounding Weather Underground

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ajlaird
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Wind Speeds Rounding Weather Underground

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I've noted that Cumulus is uploading wind speeds and wind gusts to Weather Underground as rounded, whole-number, values. I've tried all the wind related settings in Cumulus and didn't see any decimal wind speeds getting uploaded to Weather Underground.

I have verified that the weather station is reading decimal wind speeds and that Weather Underground can receive decimal wind speeds.
I also see the decimal value being output in Cumulus, so it must be getting rounded off just before it is sent to Weather Underground.

I have the latest version of Cumulus (1.8.8 I believe) and have been using it for about a month.

Is there any way to get decimal windspeeds up to Weather Underground?

Thanks,
Andrew
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Re: Wind Speeds Rounding Weather Underground

Post by steve »

I don't know why I'm rounding the wind speeds for WU. I think it must be because this version of Cumulus was originally just for Davis stations, which measure wind to the nearest mph, and no-one else has noticed this when I've added support for the other stations with their higher precision (but probably less accuracy).

I'll change it in the next release.

The latest non-beta version is 1.8.9, by the way - see the scrolling message above.
Steve
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