Thanks for looking into this. I'm glad to hear it's not a bug! :-) I can imagine it's hard to portray the subtleties of a year's worth of data in one graph. Thanks for all your work!
</rob> On Sun, Dec 10, 2023 at 7:15 AM Tom Keffer <[email protected]> wrote: > Rob sent me a copy of his database, and I've had a chance to look at it. > > Everything seems to be working properly. It's just that he has a lot of > wind from the NE. Take a look at the date 3-Dec-2022, which is typical. > Here's a histogram of wind direction. Note that this is just windDir, and > it is not being weighted by windSpeed, which would require a 2-d histogram. > Don't know how to do that in Excel. > > [image: image.png] > > The vast majority of directions are in the (0,15) range. WeeWX calculated > the vector wind direction for this date as 28.9º, which seems about right. > > -tk > > On Tue, Dec 5, 2023 at 1:23 PM vince <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Rob - I'm in Federal Way a mile or so south of Redondo and my graphs 'do' >> line up with our prevailing winds here that tend to be from the SW in this >> location. We rarely get wind from the NNE-SE directions. It either comes >> off the Sound in the Port of Tacoma or from the SW from Browns Point. >> Occasionally from the NW through a slot in the trees from the water next to >> Redondo but not too often. >> >> Your graphs just look a bit bouncy to me which might be your siting. >> See if your Vue vane is pointing into the direction weewx reports. Mine >> down here is from the SW currently FWIW. >> >> (if you watch local tv news, take a drink every time they say >> 'atmospheric river' this week) >> >> On Tuesday, December 5, 2023 at 1:01:14 PM UTC-8 Rob Cranfill wrote: >> >>> I’ll figure out how to do that and let ya know. Thanks! :-) >>> >>> On Tue, Dec 5, 2023 at 12:28 Tom Keffer <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Good point, Jeff >>>> >>>> Looking at April 2023, the plot suggests wind direction is mostly SSE. >>>> The monthly summary >>>> <https://robcranfill.net/weather/tabular.html?report=NOAA/NOAA-2023-04.txt> >>>> the same. >>>> >>>> Still, I'd like to see the database, if possible. >>>> >>>> -tk >>>> >>>> On Tue, Dec 5, 2023 at 11:12 AM Jeff A. D. <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> 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 >>>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/9c4c47fa-5c2b-4e92-95b2-def016a0b50an%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>>>> . >>>>> >>>> -- >>>> >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >>>> Google Groups "weewx-user" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >>>> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/weewx-user/AiRP8V9t90w/unsubscribe. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >>>> [email protected]. >>>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/CAPq0zEBrsbJkSGYBAWbAVB0P6hVC%3Du%2BX3-70tWbHGBKPRRcG9Q%40mail.gmail.com >>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/CAPq0zEBrsbJkSGYBAWbAVB0P6hVC%3Du%2BX3-70tWbHGBKPRRcG9Q%40mail.gmail.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/8d895fd6-bca6-44a7-b5d0-c2ad78bd8643n%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/8d895fd6-bca6-44a7-b5d0-c2ad78bd8643n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "weewx-user" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/weewx-user/AiRP8V9t90w/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/CAPq0zEB0Fzusn_pqjnVn8uPFEsX1iq89bHzJhev%2B_xjnGSzt5w%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/CAPq0zEB0Fzusn_pqjnVn8uPFEsX1iq89bHzJhev%2B_xjnGSzt5w%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. 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