It is produced by meteorological models that use all available surface winds observations. The wind information is an excellent overlay in combination with weather or geographic images to assess storm severity, blowing snow, fire danger, wind chill, and dangers from airborne hazards. Also remember, this product does not show the gust speed.
Wind is a useful overlay with a number of products depending on the many possible needs of the user.
Products that can be very useful in combination with wind information are fire danger , temperature, snow cover, snowfall, highways , topography, land use, and radar reflectivity.