Sunday, August 3, 2008

Windrose Plot


A windrose plot is a graphical representation of the windspeed and direction of the wind for an area. The above picture is from http://www.climate.washington.edu/windrose/Seattle-WindRose.jpg and shows the that in Seattle the wind Generally blew in a Southern direction with average speeds of 11-17 around 4% of the time. Total Southern winds were almost 20% of the wind pattern.

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