subplots in windrose diagram

Question

I am very beginner to python. By following this example I tried to make windrose subplots like:

but I am getting plots in this way:

The code that I tried is: 
ws = np.random.random(500) * 6
wd = np.random.random(500) * 360

fig=plt.figure()
rect=[0,0.5,0.4,0.4] 
wa=WindroseAxes(fig, rect)
fig.add_axes(wa)
wa.bar(wd, ws, normed=True, opening=0.8, edgecolor='white')

fig1=plt.figure()
rect1=[0, 0.1, 0.4, 0.4]
wa1=WindroseAxes(fig1, rect1)
fig1.add_axes(wa1)
wa1.bar(wd, ws, normed=True, opening=0.8, edgecolor='white')

plt.show()

Any help/suggestion is appreciated.

Answer 1

To get your subplots to be horizontal you need to switch the numbers on your figure axis creation. When specifying your axis rect = [lowerleft_x,lowerleft_y,width,height]

Also note that you don't need to create a new figure when doing this.

ws = np.random.random(500) * 6
wd = np.random.random(500) * 360

fig=plt.figure()
rect=[0.5,0,0.4,0.4] 
wa=WindroseAxes(fig, rect)
fig.add_axes(wa)
wa.bar(wd, ws, normed=True, opening=0.8, edgecolor='white')

rect1=[0.1, 0, 0.4, 0.4]
wa1=WindroseAxes(fig, rect1)
fig.add_axes(wa1)
wa1.bar(wd, ws, normed=True, opening=0.8, edgecolor='white')

plt.show()

Answer 2

The code can be simplified by creating the subplots in the standard matplotlib way, but setting the projection to 'windrose'.

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import windrose
import numpy as np

ws = np.random.random(500) * 6
wd = np.random.random(500) * 360

fig, (wa0, wa1) = plt.subplots(ncols=2, figsize=(9, 5),
                               subplot_kw={'projection': 'windrose'})

wa0.bar(wd, ws, normed=True, opening=0.8, edgecolor='white')
wa1.bar(wd, ws, normed=True, opening=0.8, edgecolor='white')

plt.tight_layout()
plt.show()