Cap Frehel Wind Stats

The graph shows how frequently and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical August. The biggest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue indicates the strength, with dark blue showing the strongest winds. It is based on 3573 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Cap Frehel, located 37 km away (23 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 Cap Frehel blows from the WNW. If the rose diagram shows a close to circular outline, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Cap Frehel. By contrast, dominant spokes represent 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 (light blue) about 10% of the time (3 days each August) and blows offshore 17% of the time (4 days in an average August). In a typical August wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was forecast for only a single days at Cap Frehel

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