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Utmsi_buoy_1 wind
Utmsi_buoy_1 is a land weather station. The readings come from NOAA NDBC, and Telltale keeps every one of them so the history on this page is the station's own record.
Latest observation
Utmsi_buoy_1 has not reported a wind speed recently, so there is no latest reading to show.
About this station
- Type
- land weather station
- Source
- NOAA NDBC
- Position
- 27.838, -96.500
- Exposure
- coastal
Utmsi_buoy_1 is on the shore, so it reads the water's wind well when the wind blows from the sea and less well when it blows off the land.
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. Utmsi_buoy_1 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.