Cabarete Wind Stats

This image describes how frequently and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical August. The longest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue suggests the strength, with deep blue strongest. It is based on 3574 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Cabarete, located 31 km away (19 miles). There are too few recording stations world wide to use actual wind data. No doubt some coastal places have very localized wind effects that would not be predicted by NWW3. According to the model, the most common wind at Cabarete blows from the ENE. If the rose graph shows a fairly circular pattern, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Cabarete. On the other hand, dominant spokes illustrate favoured directions, and the more deep blue, the stronger the wind. Spokes point in the direction the wind blows from. Over an average August, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (pale blue) about 2% of the time (1 days each August) and blows offshore just 3% of the time (1 days in an average August). In a typical August wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was predicted for only a single days at Cabarete

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