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Historical Wind Speeds
These maps show the surface & low-level wind speeds, historically.
Mouse over the thumbnails to see the maps.
Takeaways: 1) Northern Virginia is an unusually low-wind region - perfect for our kind of flying. 2) 2019 was less windy than 2017.
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2019
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Notes:
- “Monthly Mean Sigma .995 Wind Speed” means the monthly average speed at the surface and close above it.
- Readings were taken every 6 hours and so include both day and nighttime readings.
- Anomalous readings - tornados, hurricanes, thunderstorms - were excluded.
- Source: NOAA.