Converting wind direction in angles to text words

Question

I have wind direction data coming from a weather vane, and the data is represented in 0 to 359 degrees.

I want to convert this into text format (compass rose) with 16 di

Answer 1

To do the reverse conversion (compass letter abbreviations to degrees):

function getDir($b)
{

   $dirs = array('N'=>0, 'NNE'=>22.5,"NE"=>45,"ENE"=>67.5, 'E'=>90,'ESE'=>112.5, 'SE'=>135,'SSE'=>157.5, 'S'=>180,'SSW'=>202.5, 'SW'=>225,'WSW'=>247.5, 'W'=>270,'WNW'=>292.5,'NW'=>315,'NNW'=>337.5, 'N'=>0,'North'=>0,'East'=>90,'West'=>270,'South'=>180);
   return $dirs[$b];
}