Point de Pecheurs (Sapunis) Wind Stats

This picture illustrates how commonly and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical August. The biggest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue implies the strength, with dark blue strongest. It is based on 3590 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Point de Pecheurs (Sapunis), located 21 km away (13 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 dominant wind at Point de Pecheurs (Sapunis) blows from the S. If the rose graph shows a fairly circular pattern, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Point de Pecheurs (Sapunis). By contrast, dominant spokes illustrate 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 (pale blue) about 5% of the time (2 days each August) and blows offshore 49% of the time (15 days in an average August). In a typical August wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was expected for only a single days at Point de Pecheurs (Sapunis)

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