Compass Plot OR Polar Plot for Wind Vane Visualization

I am trying to create a visualization for a Wind Vane indicator. I found a polar plot plot example and on the polar plot example, axis properties were used to change the degrees around the circle to "N", "NW", etc...

I am using this code to make a Polar Plot indicate the direction the wind is out of:

% Convert to radians 
rad = windDir*pi/180; 
   
% Add 90 counter clockwise rotation to align the compass with true North 
rad = rad+pi; 

theta = rad;
rho = windSpeed;

Z = polarplot(theta,rho,'-');

Z.LineWidth = 12;


pax = gca;
angles = 0:45:360;
pax.ThetaTick = angles;
labels = {'E','NE','N','NW','W','SW','S','SE'};
pax.ThetaTickLabel = labels;
pax.Title.String = 'Wind Dir. Out Of...';
pax.Title.Color = 'red';

I like that the compass plot uses a long arrow and can show historical arrows. The compass plot could be used to indicate wind is blowing "toward" but when I try to use the same axis properties in the compass plot, matlab does not recognize the parameters. It only recognizes the axis parameters of a cartesian coord plot.

Thanks.