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Wind direction seems to being changing

Unread postby Thermals » Wed Oct 22, 2014 2:34 pm

It seems to me since about last year here in southern ohio we normally had a lot of north to north west winds most of fall and winter but since last winter they seem to always be a south to south west anymore. Has anyone else seen this in the area.

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Re: Wind direction seems to being changing

Unread postby Crazinamatese » Wed Oct 22, 2014 2:37 pm

The weather pattern lately has been bringing alot of warm air out of the south so far this fall for much of the country. I read earlier about a possible warm winter this year too due to El Nino.
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Unread postby Thermals » Wed Oct 22, 2014 2:47 pm

I have herd it is supposed to be worse than last year but not sure.

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Re: Wind direction seems to being changing

Unread postby Crazinamatese » Wed Oct 22, 2014 2:51 pm

As of now, 65% chance of an El nino winter.
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Unread postby Thermals » Wed Oct 22, 2014 3:05 pm

Last winter seemed to be hard for deer hunting around here

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Re: Wind direction seems to being changing

Unread postby Stanley » Wed Oct 22, 2014 4:24 pm

I am on wind patrol this time of year. I can't say I have noticed any more south winds than usual this year so far. Lots of west and North West but that is typical. I hope this is an El nino year. I'm still reeling from last winter. Fuel prices and a new furnace set me back some.
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Unread postby PLB » Wed Oct 22, 2014 4:35 pm

Our deer herd up in Northern WI need an EL Nino winter!! About 5 in a row... :shock:

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Unread postby oldrank » Wed Oct 22, 2014 11:59 pm

We have had mostly southernly wind this season. .. same as last yr.. wish we would have more north winds.

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Re: Wind direction seems to being changing

Unread postby Thermals » Thu Oct 23, 2014 12:14 am

Last year was a pretty bad winter her for us but sure you guys up north it is the same thing every year

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Re: Wind direction seems to being changing

Unread postby olivertractor » Thu Oct 23, 2014 1:10 am

PLB wrote:Our deer herd up in Northern WI need an EL Nino winter!! About 5 in a row... :shock:

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Re: Wind direction seems to being changing

Unread postby SaddleMaster » Thu Oct 23, 2014 3:08 pm

Thermals,

I'm from southern Indiana so we probably get close to the same weather. I was always under the assumption that NW was our predominant wind during hunting season. I started paying a lot more attention 7-8 years ago and would only hunt certain stands based on wind direction. I was surprised at how often I had to hunt south wind stands. So this past winter I got with a local meteorologist and he showed me where to get historical hourly wind data for our area. I loaded the last 5 years into a database and it really showed just how dominant southerly winds are for this area. Below is the % the wind was coming from that direction during daylight hours for the last 5 years. In November we have southerly winds over 52% of the time! And S and SW top the list for every month.

October
S 19.06
SW 17.93
W 15.56
NW 12.55
N 11.58
SE 9.85
E 8.83
Calm 2.42
NE 2.21

November
S 26.89
SW 14.11
E 12.83
NW 11.78
SE 11.56
W 9.67
N 6.72
NE 4.28
Calm 2.17

December
S 18.84
SW 17.33
W 15.66
SE 13.51
NW 10.55
E 8.18
Calm 7.59
N 6.94
NE 1.40


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