The documentation says m/s, the same units used for Dark Sky metric wind speed, but the wind speed values from VC seem much more like they're in km/hour. The wind speeds I'm getting are otherwise much higher than I'm getting from other weather data sources.
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Kerry I now see at this link: https://www.visualcrossing.com/resources/documentation/weather-api/unit-groups-and-measurement-units/
...that your documentation says km/hour for wind speed (and wind gust). I can't track down where I thought I saw m/s, but at this link...
https://www.visualcrossing.com/resources/blog/how-to-replace-the-dark-sky-api-using-the-visual-crossing-timeline-weather-api/
...the documentation for Dark Sky migration should make clear that replacing "windSpeed" with "windspeed" and "windGust" with "windgust" isn't always sufficient, as the migration involves possible unit conversions as well.
Other complications not specifically documented include 0-100 percent values that are 0-1 values from Dark Sky (e.g. 50 vs. 0.5).
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