Using the period of record observations from the Ames Airport weather station, the featured chart presents the monthly wind speed and direction climatology. The chart nicely shows the annual cycle with the slowest wind speeds, on average, during August and the highest during April. Wind direction nicely varies as well switching from southerly during the summer to northwesterly during the winter season. The prevalent direction certainly is intuitive for the source of the air masses that frequent the state during those seasons.

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