Ile de Re - La Couarde/Mer Wind Stats

The rose diagram shows how frequently and how strongly the wind blows from different directions over a normal August. The longest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue suggests the strength, with the darkest shade of blue showing the strongest winds. It is based on 3582 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Ile de Re - La Couarde/Mer, located 22 km away (14 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 dominant wind at Ile de Re - La Couarde/Mer blows from the W. If the rose plot shows a nearly round shape, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Ile de Re - La Couarde/Mer. Converseley, dominant spokes represent favoured directions, and the more the darkest shade of blue, the stronger the wind. Spokes point in the direction the wind blows from. During a typical August, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (the lightest shade of blue) about 11% of the time (3 days each August) and blows offshore 48% of the time (14 days in an average August). Over an average August wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was predicted for only a single days at Ile de Re - La Couarde/Mer

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