Need wind gusts alert not just wind.
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So, I live in Crete, near the port, most of the times the wind forecast is not as accurate as the wind gusts. For example the forecast showed 5bft in the past days but we had wind gusts from 6-8bft this is importan to know in a seaside town.
I now have an alert for when it reaches 5bft so I can check how strong the gusts are, but that just seems like a workaround and extra hastle where it could be just another option in the alert menu.
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Just a remark… the Beaufort scale should be used only for sustained wind, i.e. the average speed of the air flow over a duration that was fixed to 10 min for the calculation of Beaufort steps. So this scale cannot be used for wind gusts.
If Windy updates the Alert feature by adding the wind gusts parameter I hope it will not possible to express it in Bft, but only in knots, km/h, mph or m/s.
