Wind Climatology--Augusta WSO Airport (AGS)
 

Annual wind statistics from the International Station Meteorological Climate Summary CD-ROM, NCDC
 

Direction	1-3	4-6	7-10	11-16	17-21	22-27	28-33	34-40	41-47	48-55	>55	Percent of all speeds	Mean wind speed
N	1.7	2.6	1.6	.4	*	*	0	0	0	0	0	5.9	5.3
NNE	.9	1.6	1.4	.4	*	*	*	0	0	0	0	4.4	6.3
NE	1.1	2.0	2.0	.6	*	0	0	0	0	0	0	5.9	6.7
ENE	.8	1.7	1.4	.3	*	*	0	0	0	0	0	4.3	6.2
E	1.2	1.7	1.3	.3	*	0	0	*	0	0	0	4.3	5.5
ESE	1.1	1.8	1.3	.3	*	*	0	0	0	0	0	4.6	5.8
SE	2.0	2.8	1.8	.4	*	*	0	*	0	0	0	7.1	5.7
SSE	1.5	2.0	1.2	.3	*	*	0	0	0	0	0	5.2	5.6
S	2.0	2.2	1.5	.6	.1	*	*	0	0	0	0	6.1	5.6
SSW	1.1	1.3	1.3	.5	*	*	*	0	0	0	0	4.4	6.5
SW	1.5	1.7	1.9	.8	*	*	*	0	0	0	0	6.1	6.9
WSW	1.1	1.9	2.2	.9	.1	*	0	0	0	0	0	6.4	7.3
W	1.5	1.5	2.2	1.6	.3	.1	*	0	0	0	0	6.8	7.8
WNW	1.0	1.3	2.0	1.6	.3	*	*	0	0	0	0	6.4	8.7
NW	1.7	2.0	1.4	.6	.1	*	*	0	0	0	0	5.9	6.4
NNW	1.4	2.3	1.2	.3	*	*	*	0	0	0	0	5.3	5.6
Calm												10.7
All	21.6	30.6	26.0	9.9	1.1	.2	*	*	0	0	0	100	5.7

 

Monthly wind statistics

From the NCDC web site based on 1930-1996 data.

Note that because of different averaging periods, the prevailing wind direction in the table above does not match the one in the table below.
 

Station		Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Annual
Prevailing	direction	W	WNW	WNW	S	SE	SE	WSW	SE	NE	NNW	WNW	WNW	WSW
Average	speed	7	8	8	7	6	6	6	5	5	6	6	6	6
Peak	Gust	44	43	48	43	52	49	45	33	38	52	49	40	52