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Friday, December 4, 2009

Windrose



A Wind rose is a graphic tool that shows the variation of wind speed and direction that is typically distributed at a certain location. The above wind rose is showing the wind speed in relation to direction of Seattle. It shows the different strengths of the speed as increasing or decreasing (classified by colors) related to  the navigational direction the strength is increasing or decreasing towards.

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