The wind direction is wrong in the weather app

Actually, I completely understand the (lack of any) issue. My Bachelor degree is in meteorology and I’ve done graduate studies in geophysics.

Weather.com, as well as Apple’s Weather app and all other media report the direction the wind is coming from, not blowing towards.

That is standard meteorological usage. The wind direction has always been reported for hundreds of years as the direction the wind is coming from. You will find that on every weather website, every weather app, print weather in newspapers, TV weather.

This thread bores me. 120 degrees is not an opposite. Until you say which apps and where the discussion is pointless. I’ll leave future responses to the meteorologist in the thread (if he’s not bored also).

You do realize that wind directions change constantly, and that the location of the monitoring equipment can show different values at different locations, because wind direction is affected by nearby structures? So unless the reporting site is the same for the three different sources and the measurements are made at exactly the same time there will be differences.

Re: “… [it] is telling me where the wind is coming from not the direction it’s blowing …”

That’s how wind is described worldwide by ALL meteorological organizations.

i.e. Where the wind is coming FROM.

A northerly wind is in your face if you are looking north.

A 090 Deg wind is coming from the East.

I actually can’t believe I’m doing this, because I’m tired of repeating the same answer. But here is some additional detail, provided primarily for any future viewer who has the slightest doubt about the facts.

The original poster raised suspicions about two specific things left for us to assume. One was the home town involved, which I will assume is Murray, Utah since that’s in the one screenshot the original poster provided. The other is the two applications that conflict, since the screenshot only provides one (The Weather Channel).

So to conclusively wrap up this discussion, leaving no doubt the two sources (The Weather Channel, and Apple’s Weather app) show the same wind direction for Murray, Utah, here are two screenshots taken within a minute of each other showing the identical wind direction.

Case closed. Good night.

Hello Keitharaneo,

Thanks for reaching out through the Apple Support Communities about the wind direction indicator.

Is the correct wind direction usually displayed? If so, the issue may be with cellular data needing to be toggled on for The Weather app. This will allow cellular data to be used for the app and to find the weather of the location when you're not connected to Wi-Fi. Do this by going to Settings > Cellular > Weather, and make sure this is toggled on.

If you find that the correct wind direction is rarely ever displayed, make sure that you have location services turned on for The Weather app by going to Settings > Privacy > Location Services, and change the Weather app to "Always".

Take care.

Keitharaneo wrote:

The wind direction is telling me where the wind is coming from not the direction it’s blowing.

That is exactly how the wind direction is reported. That has been true for at least decades, and I believe universally.

Well, he can take it up w/ NOAA and WMO.

LOL

https://w1.weather.gov/glossary/index.php?word=WIND+DIRECTION

https://ane4bf-datap1.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/wmod8_climatedata/s3fs-public/surface_wind_ecv_factsheet_201905.pdf?M7HgKIZD58.Vi6YO_iZKbp40l73NtU3e

Here are results from The Weather Channel and Apple’s Weather app for New York City. These results were obtained within one minute of each other. Note they both show the same wind direction.