Over the last few days, my Tempest has had periods of time where the wind speed will spike very high and the wind direction will be wrong. For instance,’right now, the wind speed is below 5 mph out of the W. Per the screenshot, you can see what the Tempest is actually displaying for wind info. And then at some point, the Tempest starts showing the correct wind info. Station id 173594.
Bugs in the wind gap???
Mine has consistently been showing wind speed well below actual, today two neighbors with other brans PWS recorded gusts in wxcess of 35mph from NNW (confirmed by myself and a 4th neighbor with broken tree limbs ¾ to 1 inch) while my Tempest recorded 6.7 from W. Wind gap is cleaned regularly; station oriented meticulously and 11.5 feet AGL on 2 inch steel pipe with clear air in all directions.
I see here that I’m not alone, I’ve had several pro-grade PWS, all have their failings, this my biggest complaint for the Tempest. Does anyone know wow we can adjust for these inaccuracies?
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