Just a thought:

Shouldn't the bars terminate with a arc rather then a straight line? What value 
should one reading this diagram look at? The one at the center of the "bar" or 
the "corners" these values can be quite different. 

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On Mar 19, 2013, at 8:00 PM, Paul Hobson <pmhob...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 2:22 AM, Sudheer Joseph <sudheer.jos...@yahoo.com> 
> wrote:
>> Dear users,
>>                          Attached is a windrose diagram created by using 
>> https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=239240&package_id=290902
>>  . Can any one tell me if the numbers displayed in the attached plot is % of 
>> wind directions in each category? or are they represent some other numbers?
>> 
>> http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4ZlrnfU7IT8/TPxpftZGzfI/AAAAAAAAADA/uq9cF3PTpR8/s1600/Wind_rose_plot.jpg
> 
> Sudheer, 
> 
> That's correct. The total length of the bars is the percentage of time that 
> the wind is blowing *from* that direction. 
> See my implementation here: 
> https://github.com/phobson/python-metar/blob/master/metar/graphics.py#L135
> 
> Side note, you're emails are consistently formatted pretty strangely and can 
> be difficult to read. Perhaps stick with the same font that is in your email 
> signature?
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