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wind data help

What I mean is, I want to match the data to many trail camera observations of a given buck for instance. Having to go in and manually look up and record the wind for every single day or picture I want to review is very laborious. I used to be able to download all of this as a spreadsheet on my computer and then use software to automatically match the conditions to the date and time with a photo. With one click I could fill in all historical weather data on hundreds of photos at once. Now I must go in and look up each day through the interface you shared here and then record what I found somewhere. Before, when every single record could just be saved to my computer it was much easier to filter through and observe daily averages, wind directions around daw and dusk etc.
Gotcha.
I have no idea what you mean with the terms Csv format, API, "code in R", that you wrote about. I'd bet there are some other guys reading this that were confused as well. I (mistakenly?) thought that you were saying that historical data was no longer available on Weather Underground. I knew that the data was still available, but I need to reiterate that surface wind readings taken from personal weather stations (PWS) are not reliable for analyzing wind patterns over a broader area.

Prevailing wind is what we need to know, but prevailing wind does not necessarily match the surface wind. We need to apply our knowledge of the terrain and how the actual surface wind behaves due to the hills and other structure. We can make educated predictions of surface winds based on knowing what the prevailing wind was doing (or will be predicted) on a given day. If we can look up historical prevailing data trends, we can predict general behaviors for the areas we are contemplating for stand sites.

For individual trail cam wind monitoring, we can hang wind indicators that will show wind direction when a pic is taken. Thin strips of plastic grocery bags make great wind indicators. (I have them hanging outside my house 365 day a year). I watch wind patterns on a daily basis, not just on hunting days. Wind indicators can be placed so they show in the photo. I realize it's not exactly a high-tech method to record and store data, but we can use wind indicators to help us notice trends when our trail cams snap pics of deer.
 
1st thing is to identify the type of terrain. I can't even imagine how less complicated wind is in flat land compared to hilly terrain.
Predicting surface wind (based on prevailing wind) in hilly terrain is possible in some cases, but it's an art and it's still not 100% dependable. But surface wind in terrain is dictated by prevailing direction and speed. It's a fun challenge to figure it out, especially when everything falls into place.

But one thing that is often not mentioned in wind threads is the terrain. Flat land ain't like hill country.
Its 95% im their face in flat. It has to be.
might not be all the time out in frag butin woods , cutover, pine thickets from what im seeing if they want to live its in face obatacle at back and smelling and seeing what’s in front.
but also nothing 100%. Its close here though lol
 
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