Which Way the Wind Rose?

I found a cool tool. Ever wonder which way the wind blows at your stand? No, I don’t mean sticking your finger up. I mean, statistical historical data on exactly how often the wind blows from a given direction near your hunting location. I’m talking wind roses.

Here are the steps:

Find out the closest airport to your location: https://www.travelmath.com/nearest-airport/
Go to the climate site: https://mrcc.purdue.edu/CLIMATE/
You will have to set up an account the first time through. It’s no big deal.
Pick “Wind Rose” — the choice in the upper right corner.
Click on Select Hourly Station in the upper left hand corner and input your airport from step 1.
The rest of the input looks complicated, but it’s not.
- You want to set date range to as long a time scale as possible– 1996 to present
- You want to set the sub interval window for the date range you want to view. Pick a week or a month during hunting season.
- You can limit the data to a specific time window.

Here is the result for picking my nearest airport, LUK, and a date range of 11/8 to 12/1, the limits of the Kentucky Rifle Season and 0600 to 1900.

I think it’s easy to see most of the wind comes from the South-Southwest. It almost never comes from the East or North. I kind of knew that already, but I’d never seen it displayed. Your area may be totally different

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