Requested feature: Surface wind speed predicted from historical pressure gradients and geography

[NorthDecoder]

Predict surface wind speed from historical data

Given inputs:

• two barometric pressures,
• a distance between the pressures
• geographic location of the weather stations
• location of the center of the low (ie landfall in Pacific NW US)
• time

  Expected output:

• wind speed possible high
• wind direction

  Datasource:

• http://openweathermap.org/weather-data#current
• http://w1.weather.gov/xml/current_obs/
• http://mesowest.org/

  Reference:

Pacific NW storms: http://www.climate.washington.edu/stormking/PressureGradients.html In general: http://www.ux1.eiu.edu/~cfjps/1400/pressure_wind.html

Examples of other websites

• http://gorgekiteboardschool.com/cgi-shl/09-wind-speed-forecast.pl
• http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/map/?obs=true&wfo=sew