Wind Direction & Airports

This all makes sense: you want to align your airport runways with the prevailing wind directions. In-general, that would be (from a) westerly direction, but there are interesting local and regional wind direction patterns across the USA.

• Wind History shows the classic wind roses for weather stations across the country - many of which are of course located at airports.
• Trails of Wind shows the direction of airport runways.

Interesting to note that a) the wind direction in Texas and Kansas is often north/south and b) you can see the effect of valleys, for example wind direction in the Connecticut River Valley.