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Weather data #3: Wind direction through May 2009

Thanks once again to the impressive archival of Romney Marsh Weather, here’s a third plot of wind direction data: this time, on a 5-minutely basis, through the entirety of May 2009.

winddir-may09

All of these plots have been created with the invaluable R toolkit, with ggplot2 and circstats for polar plots.

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