Looks like those are daily plots?  Should each plot correspond with the 
dominant direction (DOM DIR), the last column of the monthly NOAA report? 

On Tuesday, December 5, 2023 at 8:27:30 AM UTC-7 Tom Keffer wrote:

> 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
>>
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