Boosting wind farmers, global winds reverse decades of slowing and pick up speed Posted on November 20, 2019 by carleigh In a boon to wind farms, average daily wind speeds are picking up across much of the globe after about 30 years of gradual slowing. Research led by a team at Princeton University shows that wind speeds in northern mid-latitude regions have increased by roughly 7% since 2010. https://www.princeton.edu/news/2019/11/18/boosting-wind-farmers-global-winds-reverse-decades-slowing-and-pick-speed