I didn't find any more information on making better use of the search engine here.
What I did track down was a site for forecasting and visualizing wind data. Current data and weeklong forecasts work beautifully; it can pull historical data and show you a visualization but I find this feature is still buggy, or at least hangs when you go digging into the past.
The creator, surely, could tell you a lot about how he manipulates publicly-available data. The site is windyty.com . There is an active Facebook page you can use to get in touch.
