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Discovery Island wind

Discovery Island is a land weather station near Oak Bay in the San Juan Islands sailing area. The readings come from Environment Canada, and Telltale keeps every one of them so the history on this page is the station's own record.

Latest observation

The latest reading at Discovery Island is a wind of 8 kn from the N (353°), gusting 9 kn, observed at 2026-11-03 23:44 UTC (Tuesday 3 Nov 16:44 local time, America/Vancouver). The air temperature was 10°C. Sea-level pressure was 1018 hPa.

The last 24 hours

Over the 24 hours to that reading, Discovery Island averaged 7 kn across 96 observations, with a strongest gust of 14 kn and a strongest mean wind of 13 kn. The prevailing direction, weighted by wind speed, was N (359°).

About this station

Type
land weather station
Source
Environment Canada
Area
San Juan Islands
Position
48.425, -123.226
Exposure
unknown

Telltale has not classified how exposed Discovery Island is, so compare it with nearby stations before relying on its absolute numbers.

Reading these numbers

The mean wind is averaged over the station's reporting period, and a gust is the strongest short burst inside it, so a gust is always at least the mean. Speeds are in knots, directions are where the wind blows from, and times are given in UTC with the station's local time beside them. A station measures its own spot; a forecast model describes a grid cell, so the two can differ by a few knots even when the forecast is good. Discovery Island is one of the stations Telltale compares with the forecast models before it shapes the live wind map; understand the weather models or how coastal wind behaves.

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