Hi, I've just purchased and set up my first weather station - a LaCrosse WS2350 and have a "newbie" question about wind speed readings please. Generally the equipment all seems to be working fine : the sensors are wirelessly connected to the base station and seem to be giving very reliable signals with no '---' readings for the month or so I've had it installed. Temperature, rainfall and wind direction readings all seem good and match the local met office station quite well. However, the wind speed readings seem to be much lower than what I'd expect. Even when there is a good strong steady breeze blowing, which the local met office station reckons to be some 25+ MPH my weather station only shows about 5-10MPH. Even when the winds have been very strong (around gale force), my max reading has been 20MPH. The anemometer is mounted above the roof in free air and I can see the cups revolving freely so...why the low readings ? To help me understand this, perhaps someone could explain how does the WS2350 work out its wind speed reading ? I know the readings are transmitted to the base station every couple of minutes (I doubt I've seen wind speed readings high enough to invoke the faster sample rate) so does that mean the reading I'm getting is the average wind speed for that whole two minute period ? Or is it just a reading taken over the second or two while the sample is being generated ? I'm aware that the unit can not be expected to give accurate readings for wind gusts but I would have expected to see something more approaching reality for average wind speeds. Or maybe this is just how the WS2350 works...? Comments and suggestions gratefully received.... Thanks, Paul (PS: I did try a search for this question before posting but didn't find anything directly related)
