[wxqc] Wind Gusts

[Victor Engel]

I think it depends upon the software. Where were you seeing the record
of 23? Was it on the console, or was it in some software? If it was
the console, what's indicated there is essentially instantaneous
speed, although, technically, that's not even possible I guess, since
the signal being sensed is a digital stream of pulses.

Victor

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 8:41 AM, Lynnette Akiki
<ljakiki at sylvaniaweather.com> wrote:
> I'm still new to all this.  I received  Vantage Pro2 for Christmas last year
> and installed the Anemometer at 33 feet.  We had a pretty nasty storm come
> through last night.  My Vantage Pro2 only recorded a wind gust at 25mph and
> that was long before the storm started.   During the storm I only clocked a
> wind gust of 23. An OHDOT station less than 2 miles from me clocked at 48
> mph.  By the way the tress were bending here it had to be at least that
> here.
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> How are wind gusts determined?  Does the gust have to be sustained for a
> certain amount of time before it is recorded?
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> Thanks in advance for your help.  I've learned a lot just by reading the
> posts to this list
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> Lynnette
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