Thank you. I was in fact forgetting the country parameter.

Same issue. Was working fine last time I checked a couple of weeks ago. Now getting 403 Access denied. What's up with this?

Yes - what's reported is a "west wind." But the wind bearing is east. The wind direction is the compass heading from which the wind is blowing (so, 90.0 °, or West), but the wind bearing is the direction in which the wind is moving, so East. Put a weather vane in a west wind and it will point east. In short, compassDirection = windBearing. That's my understanding.