IEM Daily Feature
Thursday, 11 April 2019
Thursday, 11 April 2019
Howling East Wind
Posted: 11 Apr 2019 05:32 AM
With the extremely powerful storm system just off to our west, winds on Wednesday were
howling out of the east rushing toward the low pressure system. A way to summarize the
wind direction and speeds on Wednesday is through a wind rose chart. A wind rose is a
histogram plotted on a polar plot. The length of the bars represent a frequency for a given
speed and direction combination. The wind speeds are partitioned to break down the
frequency by speed for a given direction. The plot nicely shows the dominate easterlies
yesterday with hardly any winds reported less than 10 MPH.
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Voting:
Good = 16
Bad = 1