usual prevailing wind direction

[Doc]

So, just out of curiosity, what do you consider the usual prevailing wind direction on your hunting property. Of course we get the hodge-podge of wind directions, but here in the Bristol Hills area, the wind predominantly is coming from the west to east. I have always wondered if the usual prevailing wind direction is the same all over the state.

[Culvercreek hunt club]

8 minutes ago, Doc said:

So, just out of curiosity, what do you consider the usual prevailing wind direction on your hunting property. Of course we get the hodge-podge of wind directions, but here in the Bristol Hills area, the wind predominantly is coming from the west to east. I have always wondered if the usual prevailing wind direction is the same all over the state.

Normal weather flow in the northern hemisphere is west to east. 

[turkeyfeathers]

NNW is pretty much the norm where I hunt. With thermals

[Culvercreek hunt club]

pressure systems will vary that in the short term though. I like using this map to show what we are up against in general. http://hint.fm/wind/

 

 

 

 

[BKhunter]

I just bought one of those wind checkers for this upcoming season. Small bottle with odorless powder. I will use that to pick and choose how I hunt the property each day.

[phade]

milkweed floaters are 10x better than that powder crud. They will show you thermals.

Edited August 31, 2016 by phade

[turkeyfeathers]

I use Primos wind and Antler Insanity aps on phone. Save location and check

[turkeyfeathers]

4 minutes ago, phade said:

milkweed floaters are 10x than that powder crud.

I picked some the other day and am drying them out

[grampy]

Prevailing wind direction in my area during hunting season is NNW.

[Culvercreek hunt club]

11 minutes ago, grampy said:

Prevailing wind direction in my area during hunting season is NNW.

terain and large features can effect the funneling of them as well.  can be subtly different a half mile up the road. 

[philoshop]

Prevailing winds are almost always out of the west to northwest in this part of NY. But I live 200 yards west of Seneca lake with a very gradual 600+ foot rise in elevation directly behind me and I've found that more often than not during hunting season the air moves out of the east. I'm not sure why this is so.

My computer is tied into a few local amateur weather stations, but they're all located on top of the hill somewhere behind me and will show air movement out of the west, even though the 'telltale' surveyor's tape I put up in my back yard clearly shows an easterly direction.

[phade]

Big bodies of water can pull or push wind/thermals.

I had a lease in Sodus close to the shoreline of Lake Ontario and the wind was N yet when I arrived to the ground, that lake was sucking wind straight S.

[Zag]

We typically see a west south west in our spot on the hill.

[NFA-ADK]

West on LI and sometimes out of the North.  Yes thermals  can change but he is asking what the prevailing winds are.

[growalot]

Doc ...a few years ago I would have said WNW...but not now we have been increasingly getting a SW and SE winds. especially in the fall and late winter...Though it swirls...some times the trees look like they are twigs in a blender with the top off...

[mattypotpie8S]

NNW. Have a stand for a wind with some east in it, don't get to sit there much

[wolc123]

Physics might explain the prevailing west wind.   We have day and night because the earth is round and spins, like on an axis, at one revolution per day, while orbiting the sun at one revolution per year.  Because the sun rises in the east, the earth's daily rotation must be towards the west.  If not, then those folks to the west would see the sunrise earlier than those to the east.    What we feel as "wind", may be air standing still, but the ground below it rotating towards the west.  Newton's law say's that a body at rest stays at rest, unless acted on by a force.   Local weather disturbances may provide that "force" and cause the wind to temporarily deviate from the prevailing westerly direction.  Knowing the diameter of the earth, it would be easy to calculate the average velocity of the west wind over a long period of time.   It is quite a stretch to think that this stuff happens as it does by random chance and without a divine creator.                    

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[turkeyfeathers]

39 minutes ago, wolc123 said:

.  Knowing the diameter of the earth, it would be easy to calculate the average velocity of the west wind over a long period of time.                     

7,926 miles

If using common core math please show your work

[phade]

42 minutes ago, wolc123 said:

Physics might explain the prevailing west wind.   We have day and night because the earth is round and spins, like on an axis, at one revolution per day, while orbiting the sun at one revolution per year.  Because the sun rises in the east, the earth's daily rotation must be towards the west.  If not, then those folks to the west would see the sunrise earlier than those to the east.    What we feel as "wind", may be air standing still, but the ground below it rotating towards the west.  Newton's law say's that a body at rest stays at rest, unless acted on by a force.   Local weather disturbances may provide that "force" and cause the wind to temporarily deviate from the prevailing westerly direction.  Knowing the diameter of the earth, it would be easy to calculate the average velocity of the west wind over a long period of time.   It is quite a stretch to think that this stuff happens as it does by random chance and without a divine creator.                    

Oh. My. Gosh.

It reminds me of the tough guy saying that someone's head is going to run into his fist.

[Buckmaster7600]

South west in October north west in November. We often have an east wind when it cools down early morning before the sun.


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[DirtTime]

1 hour ago, wolc123 said:

Physics might explain the prevailing west wind.   We have day and night because the earth is round and spins, like on an axis, at one revolution per day, while orbiting the sun at one revolution per year.  Because the sun rises in the east, the earth's daily rotation must be towards the west.  If not, then those folks to the west would see the sunrise earlier than those to the east.    What we feel as "wind", may be air standing still, but the ground below it rotating towards the west.  Newton's law say's that a body at rest stays at rest, unless acted on by a force.   Local weather disturbances may provide that "force" and cause the wind to temporarily deviate from the prevailing westerly direction.  Knowing the diameter of the earth, it would be easy to calculate the average velocity of the west wind over a long period of time.   It is quite a stretch to think that this stuff happens as it does by random chance and without a divine creator.                    

Um, so how does that explain when there is no breeze? The Earth is still spinning. Right? 

[wolc123]

"Local weather disturbances may provide that "force" and cause the wind to temporarily deviate from the prevailing westerly direction."

That should cover it Rob, any more questions?

[DirtTime]

So if I fart, it will cause a fluctuation in the wind and thermals? 

 

[wolc123]

Yes but not big enough to measure with currently available instrumentation.  Every action has a reaction:  Beer + Beans = Fart 

                                         

[grampy]

8 minutes ago, wolc123 said:

"Local weather disturbances may provide that "force" and cause the wind to temporarily deviate from the prevailing westerly direction."

That should cover it Rob, any more questions?

I have a question. Did you actually pass HS math, or were you the class genius or teachers pet?