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 | How to find your local Maximum Wind Speeds for Tower building guidelines |
 When designing a Amateur Radio Station tower installation, how do you determine the maximum wind speeds to design for?
The maximum wind speeds will vary depending on the geographic location of your tower installation. In the USA you can consult the NOAA Climate Data tables of observed data for an area close to you.
For Example, I live in Stuart Florida, my town is not big enough to be on the list but it is about 30 miles north of West Palm Beach, so I should be safe to use that
data for my reference point. NOAA Maximum Wind Speeds
It appears by looking at the row for West Palm Beach, that throughout the last 57 years the annual measured wind speeds peaked at 86 miles per hour. I can tell you
from first hand experience, August is a bad month for wind. October, though slightly lower at 83 miles per hour, is the month my last tower was destroyed (October 2005, thanks Wilma)
So it appears to me that if you are building a tower in my town of Stuart FL, it should be at a minimum built to withstand 90 mph winds when fully loaded.
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