the test data is not complete for the rain info sent
I will fix that
the problem with the rain is i might not be including enough decimal places for the inches for small rain amounts to show up
so try a new update re that
same url as before
re the wind direction not working
all that I have to go on is what info I could gleam from this thread
http://www.wxforum.net/index.php?topic=29838.475
it could be that it remains the same as the original, the wind direction, which was a coded format