That is an odd graph of wind direction. I looked over a one-year plot of wind direction at my location, and it has a similar look. But then, I live in a gorge where the wind almost always blows east or west, occasionally from the south, almost never from the north.
[image: image.png] Is there some way you could make your database available to me? Perhaps put it on a Google Drive, or FTP server? I'd like to take a closer look. -tk On Mon, Dec 4, 2023 at 5:36 PM Rob Cranfill <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, all! Longtime user, and hoping this isn't too dumb a question..... > > I have seen the ongoing discussions about the inherent difficulty of > calculating "average wind direction" and am wondering if maybe that issue > is what is causing the weirdness in this long-term graph, like this (taken > from http://robcranfill.net/weather, which you are free to peruse!) > > [image: yearwinddir] > > This is my yearly data, and I'm sure the wind does *not* actually blow > like that. I had a friend/user ask me about why the graph looks like this, > and I had no answer, except to say "No, there is nothing preventing my > weather vane from pointing any way the wind blows!" :-) > > Thanks for any info, > rob in seattle > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "weewx-user" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/e1a39ce9-ad57-4750-a181-211e87d6aa21n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/e1a39ce9-ad57-4750-a181-211e87d6aa21n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/CAPq0zEBcQtX%3DgHw0iqjuz9956-m__zC8_AttM6SODWKxDcsECw%40mail.gmail.com.
