What are Wind Rose Plots?
Wind Rose plots are graphical representations of wind observations and calculations such as speed and direction. They are used to analyze wind patterns over periods of time like a day, a month, or even an entire year. For this particular lab, we used free software from the Lakes Environmental website and we used data from the EPA website to make the wind rose plot.
What do they look like?
Below I have provided 3 pictures of wind rose plots that I created with the Lake Environmental software. I used data from my birthday, June 12, 1992 for the blowing-from and blowing-to plots, and the month of June during 1992 for an average month. Since my hometown is about 40 minutes away from Tallahassee, Florida, I used data collected from the wind station at the Tallahassee Regional Airport.
Blowing From- June 12, 1992
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Blowing To- June 12, 1992
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Monthly Average- June 1992
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