Maslin Beach Wind Stats

The rose diagram describes how often and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical August. The largest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue suggests the strength, with the strongest winds shown by the darkest shade of blue. It is based on 3472 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Maslin Beach, located 52 km away (32 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 Maslin Beach blows from the SW. If the rose plot shows a nearly round shape, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Maslin Beach. Converseley, dominant spokes illustrate favoured directions, and the more dark 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 (the lightest shade of blue) about 6% of the time (2 days each August) and blows offshore 13% of the time (2 days in an average August). During a typical August wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was predicted for only a single days at Maslin Beach

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