wind speeds

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Wind speeds

Is their any way of gauging weather a wind speed is accurate or not? Unless you actually live in that area is the anything that helps to guess weather a wind speed on a site is accurate or not?

Because I want to know is what where reading from places like this Are accurate

http://www.gm7pbb.co.uk/

http://www.xcweather.co.uk/

http://www.netweather.tv/index.cgi?action=daily;type=maxw

Also some gusts seem unbelievable. Could they be caused by freak gusts?

Thanks.

[Budgie]

It's hard to check really.

I tend to measure mine against the nearest METAR station (Stornoway Airport in my case, which is only 6 miles away) as these are calibrated and should be quite accurate.

Temperature, Baro & Dew Point are done for me on CWOP, which comes in handy for checking your installation and whether your repositioning of sensors has had an effect or not.

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thanks. Thought Id get more feedback though.