[Feature suggestion] Change wind speed unit

[feliciakri]

While get_temperature() supports unit parameter, get_wind() does not support it. OWM has wind speed unit available as Imperial (miles/hour) or Metric (meter/sec) unit.

Suggested implementation:
w.get_wind(unit = 'Imperial') or
w.get_wind(unit = 'miles/hour') or
w.get_wind('Imperial')

References:
https://openweathermap.org/weather-data

[csparpa]

@feliciakrismanta implemented with #189 :)
cheers!

[robinpaulson]

Would it be possible to expand this to km/h, beaufort and knots also? cheers

[csparpa]

Yes @robinpaulson .

[alecagayan]

What are the conversion units for wind direction?

[geofbaum]

@oopsie1412 What do you mean for conversion of the wind direction? It's already in degrees? If you're looking to convert the degrees into a cardinal direction here's a table with the degree breakdown.
http://snowfence.umn.edu/Components/winddirectionanddegreeswithouttable3.htm

Also remember if you do go that route that the direction in degrees is saying which direction the wind is coming from and not the direction it's blowing.

[csparpa]

@oopsie1412 Please check https://github.com/csparpa/pyowm/blob/master/pyowm/utils/temputils.py
The only conversion currently implemented is metric-imperial back and forth.

User @robinpaulson proposed conversion also to/from "beaufort and knots" months ago... I am not an expert here, so if anybody can provides references to the math I can implement those conversions as well and pack them into version 3 (will be released in 2020)

[robinpaulson]

https://www.convertunits.com/type/speed
https://www.rmets.org/resource/beaufort-scale

[csparpa]

Implemented with 04bd0f5