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Wind Rose overview

See where a site's wind comes from, month by month, from a nearby weather station's typical-year record.

Wind Rose reads a weather station's typical-year hourly record and shows where the wind comes from and how hard it blows, for the whole year or the months you pick. Use it to place entries, outdoor rooms and openings for cross-ventilation.

A Wind Rose scheme saves just a name and the weather station you picked. The weather numbers are read from the station's record each time the scheme opens.

Wind Rose is one of four climate tools that work the same way: Wind Rose, Rainfall, Thermal and Sun Path. Each saves its own scheme, so a wind study and a rain study for the same site are two schemes.

The main screen #

From top to bottom:

  • The toolbar. Project ▾ on the left, then the scheme's name (click it to rename) and a status message when something happens. On the right: ▦ Board, ⇄ Change station, New, Import, Export ▾, and Share / Snapshots last. ▦ Board and ⇄ Change station show once a station is loaded.
  • The study. A Colors setting, then two cards: Wind rose with its month buttons, and What the wind does here. See The wind rose.
  • The source line at the bottom: the dataset, the station's file and who publishes it.

Before a station is picked, the tool shows its start screen instead: Saved in your projects, Find a station by name, Or map it from your site, and Demos to the side. See Weather stations.

Start a new wind study #

From a project page #

  1. On the project page, click + New.
  2. Pick Wind Rose.

The scheme is made inside the project and opens on the start screen. If the project has an approximate location, its nearest stations are already on the map. Click one to load it. See Projects and schemes.

The project page's Approximate location also has a Wind rose near here ↗ button. It opens Wind Rose with the stations nearest the project, but doesn't make a scheme in the project; push it in yourself (below).

From inside the tool #

  1. Click New. If a station is open, confirm that you want to start over. A scheme that's in a project stays there.
  2. Pick a station. See Weather stations.

A new scheme lives only on this computer until you push it into a project: open Project ▾ and click Push to a project…. Once it's in a project, it saves as you work. To keep it off the cloud entirely, see Local only.

Open existing work #

  • From the start screen. Saved in your projects lists the wind schemes in your projects and in projects shared with you. Click one to open it.
  • From Project ▾. It lists the same schemes below the project actions.
  • From a project page. Click the scheme's name.
  • From a file. Click Import and pick a scheme file you saved with Export ▾ → Scheme file (.json). It replaces the scheme on this computer.

Who can see a scheme #

A scheme in a project is shared with the people on that project, with their roles. Viewers can look and export pictures but can't change the station. See People and roles. To share outside the project, use view-only links or snapshots.

Live station data needs you signed in with tool access. Signed out, the three demo stations still work, and a view-only link loads its own scheme's station for whoever opens it.

AI connector #

An AI assistant connected through the AI connector can read a climate scheme and the weather numbers from its station (climate zone, design temperatures, degree days, rain, snow and wind speeds). It can't change the scheme.