<![CDATA[Wind Direction and Rain question]]>Hello
I am going to purchase a windy API license. I have a few questions regarding windy direction and precip and ptype.

  1. I see that you are able to show the direction in the windy UI. But why is direction not directly available in the API as a parameter?
  2. I wanted to get rain details at a partcular location.I gave  the following parameter for getting rain details

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I am assuming precip will be positive value and ptype will be 1 for a place where it is raining. but precip is seen as 0 for 10 and 11 in the below array
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but ptype for 10 and 11 are 0
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I am confused on how I can understand the rain value at surface.
How can I understand how much rain is there at a given location? Kindly help

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Best
Renjith P

]]>https://community.windy.com/topic/21300/wind-direction-and-rain-questionRSS for NodeTue, 21 Apr 2026 09:47:02 GMTSat, 16 Jul 2022 04:16:46 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Wind Direction and Rain question on Thu, 13 Jul 2023 14:52:06 GMT]]>I am having the same issue. Timestamps that have precipitation values are missing the ptype. ptype seems to be randomly injected.

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