Pacific City/Cape Kiwanda Wind Stats

This chart illustrates 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 implies the strength, with the darkest shade of blue strongest. It is based on 2976 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Pacific City/Cape Kiwanda, located 54 km away (34 miles). There are not enough recording stations world wide to use actual wind data. Without question some coastal places have very localized wind effects that would not be predicted by NWW3. According to the model, the most common wind at Pacific City/Cape Kiwanda blows from the W. If the rose graph shows a fairly circular pattern, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Pacific City/Cape Kiwanda. On the other hand, 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. Over an average August, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (the lightest shade of blue) about 17% of the time (5 days each August) and blows offshore 18% of the time (6 days in an average August). During a typical August wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was expected for only a single days at Pacific City/Cape Kiwanda

read more