Las Galletas Wind Stats

The figure shows how commonly and how strongly the wind blows from different directions over a normal August. The biggest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue implies the strength, with deep 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 Las Galletas, located 15 km away (9 miles). There are too few recording stations world wide to use actual wind data. Invevitably some coastal places have very localized wind effects that would not be predicted by NWW3. According to the model, the prevailing wind at Las Galletas blows from the SSW. If the rose graph shows a fairly circular pattern, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Las Galletas. Converseley, dominant spokes show favoured directions, and the more dark 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 1.9% of the time (1 days each August) and blows offshore just 43% of the time (13 days in an average August). Over an average August wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was expected for only a single days at Las Galletas

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