Pointe de Leyde Wind Stats

This chart describes how commonly 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 dark blue showing the strongest winds. It is based on 3590 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Pointe de Leyde, located 48 km away (30 miles). There are not enough 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 most common wind at Pointe de Leyde blows from the W. If the rose plot shows a nearly round shape, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Pointe de Leyde. By contrast, dominant spokes show 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 (light blue) about 9% of the time (3 days each August) and blows offshore 16% of the time (5 days in an average August). In a typical August winds stronger than >40kph (25mph) are expected on 2 days at Pointe de Leyde

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