Accurate Wind Report Mediterranean

[Irish Rover]

What I’m looking for is a site which gives accurate recent wind speed reports. Like everyone else I use a number of sources for forecasts including Windfinder, Windguru, Poseidon and the Turkish Met Office Marina forecast. The forecasts are generally adequate enough for planning purposes. However when I’m out there I never know what the actual wind speed is. For instance on Tuesday I traveled from Kuşadası marina to Teos Marina in Sığacık. The forecast was for 8Kn gusting max 11. It felt a good bit stronger than that with white caps as far as the eye could see and waves breaking over the bow regularly at 6.5 Kn (10.3m motor catamaran]. I have no idea what the actual wind speed was but I’d dearly like to know to help future planning. So does anyone know a good source for actual recent historical data. Sorry for the roundabout way of asking the question.

 

[coopec]

I'm certainly no expert but surely wind speeds would vary all the time for different localities. If a weather station recorded 25 knots that wouldn't necessarily be the wind speed for your locality 10 miles away.

I'll be interested to see what OP say.

Maybe?

https://www.windfinder.com/#10/36.6183/12.9501

 

[GHA]

windy.com has a few live station reports, click the little wind icon next to the star at the left of the icon bottom right.

 

[Spirit (of Glenans)]

windy.com has a few live station reports, click the little wind icon next to the star at the left of the icon bottom right.

Buy, online, an anemometer that plugs into your phone. There are various models, similar to the one linked below, for iPhone and Android:
https://techcrunch.com/2013/07/29/vaavud-smartphone-wind-meter-review/?guccounter=1

 

[KINGFISHER 9]

I use VentuSky ....nearly always spot on.

 

[sailaboutvic]

I think most of us who sails these seas agree the med Especially around Greece and Turkey wind direction and force is very hard to predict , we been given a Northernly for the last three days , it's only to day that it turned North last rew days southerly .
Wind finder/windguru is find for local spots but further out can be a very different story , how many of us have sailed ( sorry motor ) all the way around an island just to find at every turn the wind point straight at you . to day forecaster was for a northerly 12 kts by mid day , by mid day we had 8kts by 1400 we got 17kts , make what you like out of that .
Everyone seen to swear by the forecaster they use , I not found one yet that is right all the time .
We now look at three or four if they are all the same there a very good chance that what you going to get , it there are different , then it's anyone guess .

 

[macd]

Turkish Met Office is well regarded*, although like all forecasts it cannot be relied on at a local scale. Often the strongest winds are gusts in the lee of islands, in which case pilot books/local knowledge/experience are often your best friend. If on passage in open waters (for most of us, a minority of the time), general situation forecasts, GRIBs incuded, are more relevant.

Worth checking out the University of Athens site, although the graphics leave something to be desired. It's often predicted strong local winds when other sources did not: http://forecast.uoa.gr/ICLAMS/index.php

* Depending on which pages you're looking at. Some are entirely computer-generated, some have human input.

 

[GHA]

Another source of historical data, click on a WX icon -

https://aprs.fi