Wind by direction

The share of hours a year that the wind blows from each of eight directions, as lollipops from the center: a line and a dot, so that the long southwest and west arms stand out. The description names the highest and the lowest direction. Illustrative shares, with a phone variant.

Wind by direction

examples/wind-directions.json

{
  "schemaVersion": 1,
  "type": "polar",
  "title": "Wind by direction",
  "source": "Illustrative share of hours per year the wind blows from each direction",
  "width": 640,
  "height": 480,
  "polar": {
    "display": "lollipops",
    "valueLabel": "Percent of hours",
    "points": [
      {
        "label": "N",
        "value": 6
      },
      {
        "label": "NE",
        "value": 9
      },
      {
        "label": "E",
        "value": 8
      },
      {
        "label": "SE",
        "value": 7
      },
      {
        "label": "S",
        "value": 11
      },
      {
        "label": "SW",
        "value": 24
      },
      {
        "label": "W",
        "value": 21
      },
      {
        "label": "NW",
        "value": 14
      }
    ]
  },
  "mobile": {
    "width": 380,
    "height": 420
  }
}

Wind by direction

Source: Illustrative share of hours per year the wind blows from each direction

Show chart data

Data for Wind by direction
Category	Percent of hours
N	6
NE	9
E	8
SE	7
S	11
SW	24
W	21
NW	14

Polar chart (lollipops)
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