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WASHINGTON, May 17, 2022 – Wind energy is occupying an increasingly large share of the energy landscape, which comes with an increasing reliance on the intermittent nature of wind. Utilities must be ...

Optimizing the integration of wind energy into a country's power network requires reliable forecasts of how wind speed and direction are likely to vary in time and space over the pending few hours.

Wind power is booming on the open plains of eastern Colorado. Travel seven miles north of the town of Limon on Highway 71 and then head east on County Road 3p, a swath of dusty gravel running ...

Scientists determined that by increasing the accuracy of weather forecasts over the last decade, consumers netted at least $384 million in energy savings. The researchers based their predictions on ...

As the holiday weekend comes to a close a high-impact, long-duration weather event is setting up across the Finger Lakes, Central New York, and much of Upstate New York. Conditions will be ...

When looking at a surf forecast, there are several key factors to take into consideration, including swell direction, swell height, tide times, wind speed and wind direction. If you can understand ...

I read your forecasts for the winds and their directions. You usually use SW or NW, but lately southerly or easterly. Now, I no longer know if they are coming from the south or headed to the south.

Wind direction is often stated in a contradictory manner in popular usage. Terms like “south” and “southerly” are unfortunately applied to winds blowing from the south and also blowing to the south.