Atlanta Wind - just the stats please

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Atlanta Wind - just the stats please

I found a good database of historical wind records for Gilmer Airport in Gainesville here: https://mrcc.illinois.edu/CLIMATE/

I compiled the stats by month and total here

Here's the results as a windrose (animated). I'm going to upload the individual months to the wiki this week but I'm done for the night.

All months combined below...

Interesting stuff. Basically, the wind blows from either the W (WSW,W,WNW) or E(E,ENE). It's calm almost 7% of the time.

Enjoy

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Re: Atlanta Wind - just the stats please

Windfinder also has wind roses but with a shorter time span - they also use 7am-7pm

https://www.windfinder.com/windstatistics/gainesville_airport and select the "Statistics" tab

I also ran Marietta/Dobbins (for Allatoona) and Columbus (for West Point). The Cli-mate page has fewer options for data sets - it did not include McCollum nor LaGrange

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Re: Atlanta Wind - just the stats please

Okay - almost done now

All Lake Lanier: https://windsportatlanta.com/wiki/Wind_Roses_(Lake_Lanier) note the difference, say, between Sept (lots of NE/E) to Oct. (lots more W)
Regional

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Re: Atlanta Wind - just the stats please
webguy wrote:

I found a good database of historical wind records for Gilmer Airport in Gainesville here: https://mrcc.illinois.edu/CLIMATE/

I compiled the stats by month and total here: <a href="https://windsportatlanta.com/wiki/Wind_Direction_-_Frequency_and_Strength_" rel="nofollow">https://windsportatlanta.com/wiki/Wind_Direction_-_Frequency_and_Strength_(Lake_Lanier)

Answers that burning question: "What's the frequency webguy?"

What happens in a black hole stays in a black hole.

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Re: Atlanta Wind - just the stats please

Dan Rather knows what the frequency is: https://danratherjournalist.org/about-dan/controversies/frequency-kenneth/video-whats-frequency-kenneth

btw, fixed a bunch of links above. The website doesn't handle urls with parentheses very well - they break at the parantheses.

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