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 >> >> -- >> 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/9c4c47fa-5c2b-4e92-95b2-def016a0b50an%40googlegroups.com.
