Windrose map

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This map is known as a windrose map and is commonly used to help represent the data that has been tracked about wind speed and direction. This map has its information recorded from a sit near the World Trade center only a few days after the accident happened, in order to try and learn as much as possible from that time. This map is really important because it helps us learn about specific conditions of a time and place and how they affected many of the events around it. Also, tracing the wind is very useful because it can tell us a lot about the other types of weather that are about to be formed and how that weather is going to react. If there is a lot of mixing of warm and cold air, it could potentially lead to a hurricane or other disaster and then it could be tracked by the direction in which the wind is blowing; both statistics possibly helping with improving weather forecasting.