"wind_string" - string in KPH rather than MPH? | The WeatherAPI Community Customer Community

"wind_string" (appears to) always return speeds in MPH eg: "From the NNW at 22.0 MPH Gusting to 28.0 MPH". Is there some way to force the return of KPH in this string or is there a KPH version? If not, is it a conflict of the Terms of Service (ToS) to programmatically alter the string to contain the KPH equivalent values: ToS says: "(1) you will not modify the data from Wunderground Data Feed in any way;" I would have thought that altering the units is not altering the actual data, which in theory could be expressed in many ways eg in Kelvin.

Just checking

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Posted 7 years ago

7 years ago

WunderWilliam

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Don't worry -- it's not be a conflict of ToS to programmatically convert units.

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7 years ago

GEOSoft

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Why bother converting units? Just do a string replacement using the wind_kph and wind_gust_kph fields or create your own string by also including the wind_dir

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7 years ago

Just checking

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Good approach but not sure if this can cover the occasions when it just says "Calm", plus there may be other wording that I have not yet experienced. Like "Watch out - hurricane coming" !!

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