7 July 2015

Météo France, converting between different wind speed units (#4)

The small Météo France site I created has been updated with a new parameter that can be used to customize the unit that windspeed is presented as.

The u= parameter

The new parameter that controls the windspeed is ?u= and accepts the following values:

Value Comment Examples
u=bf Beaufort scale of windforce between 0 and 12.
More information about conversions. Unit "F"

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u=ms Meters per second. Unit "m/s".
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u=kn Knots. Unit "kn".
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u=kmh Kilometers per hour. Unit "km/h". This is the current default.
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More information on conversion and meaning of these different scales can be found here and on Wikipedia.

This parameter works both for the website as well as the weather API service.

Examples

Knots
Kn

Beaufort Force
F

Kilometers per hour
Km/h

Meters per second
m/s