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wind direction in weather widget - what means O?

Heikoo
over 3 years ago

this may be a silly question, but i can't figure out what the "O" means (SE O, N O, S O....)

It's certainly not wind speed.

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to marcom1975

    because i never saw any other value, regardless of the wind conditions

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to Heikoo

    I also only see '0' as well.

    When I click through to the weather details it shows the correct wind speed but it never shows anything apart from '0' on this screen.

    Is this an issue on my side or Garmin's?

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to 1223219

    It used to be the wind speed in MPH (for those of us int he USA).  This too Garmin has broken.

  • 0 over 2 years ago

    that is a Zero 0 and not O, on the Australian Weather site (BOM) when its 0 wind speed(km/h) the direction defaults to N (0 or 360 degrees points north), when I am calculating Air Density for aerodynamics as a lower Air Density gives a faster riding speed.

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to lopey66

    ???

    It’s not southeast (SE) and north (0 degrees). 

    Not sure what air density has to do with this.

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to dpawlyk

    It is (S)outh (E)ast with 0 wind speed, I said the Australian Government site, when I have seen it display N for 0 Wind on their website, it doesn't mean other sites do the same in their algorithms, and in a further check in their data, they have placed Calm instead of a wind direction.

    "wind_dir": "CALM",
    "wind_spd_kmh": 0,
    "wind_spd_kt": 0

    As I said to Calculate CdA (Coefficent of Drag Area metre2) in cycling aerodynamics you need windspeed as a parameter and another parameter is Air Density which requires another set of parameters, weather sites dont calculate that, I'm calculating that, I have to know what each value mean and I prefer to test CDA when there is 0 wind (image 3rdpart connectIQ app using aeropod sensor)

    Live CdA on Edge530

    Snapshot of BOM radar data

    my JSON data as of a few minutes ago:

    "2021-12-08T08:30:00Z", "feels_like": 6.7, "cloud": "Partly cloudy",
     "air_temp": 13.2, "press": 1018.4, "rain": 1.0, "rel_hum": 63,
     "wind_dir": "S", "wind_spd": 30, "air_density": 1.233016



    JSON Weather data:
     
     "air_temp": 13.2,
     "dewpt": 6.3,
     "press": 1018.4,
     "press_msl": 1018.4,
     "press_qnh": 1018.4,
     "press_tend": "-",
     "rain_trace": "1.0",
     "rel_hum": 63,
     "sea_state": "-",
     "swell_dir_worded": "-",
     "swell_height": null,
     "swell_period": null,
     "vis_km": "10",
     "weather": "-",
     "wind_dir": "S",
     "wind_spd_kmh": 30,
     "wind_spd_kt": 16