For all the keen sailors, skippers, sport enthusiasts and outdoorsy types the iPhone Wind Meter application is now available so you can use your iPhone to measure wind speed!
Now, how cool is that? Anemometer iPhone application costs $0.99 USD.
iPhone Wind Meter works by measuring the volume of the wind on your iPhone microphone and converts it into a wind speed reading.
iPhone anemometer is used in few easy steps:
- point the microphone into the wind
- press Get Wind!
- wait for a few seconds
- press Got Wind!
- get final reading which is the average of the period.
This application uses sound conversion to gauge wind velocity. As the wind speed increases, the application converts the louder noise on the microphone into a wind velocity reading.
iPhone Wind Meter supports multiple units of measure including Miles Per Hour, Knots, Kilometers Per Hour, Beaufort, and soon Feet Per Second, and Meters Per Second.
iPhone anemometer can be used to determine the wind velocity for a variety of uses: windsurfing, kitesurfing, sailing, rc flying, hang gliding, golfing, hunting, fishing, rowing biking, tennis, and more.
However, iPhone Wind Meter application is not meant to take the place of scientific instrumentation and is for recreational use only.
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone 2nd generation. Requires iPhone 2.0 Software Update
Accoring to Testimonials and the video featured at http://goingapps.com the iPhone application seems to be surprisingly accurate too!
Kitelife Magazine
“In our own field tests here at Kitelife, we found that in a relatively consistent wind speed of 3-28 mph, the Wind Meter app was surprisingly accurate.”
iKitesurf Community Forum Index
“Was at Seaside on the weekend and a guy had the app. We put it up next to a wind meter and was only off from the wind meter by 1 mph - pretty impressed.”
iWindsurf Community Forum Index
“works real good; pretty accurate side by side with other handheld meters. seems to have better averaging [as compared with skywatch]”
“Very clever app! By chance it’s blowing tonight, so I went up to our flat roof and stood a few feet below our Davis Instruments anemometer. The Davis recorded a max gust of about 26 mph while the max I recorded with the Wind Meter was 23 mph. Had I climbed the ladder, I expect the readings would have been even closer.
Looks as your iPhone with Wind Meter application will definetly be on your sailing holidays list 
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