Salad Bowls Wind Stats

The figure illustrates how often and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical August. The longest 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 3472 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Salad Bowls, located 52 km away (32 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 Salad Bowls blows from the SSW. If the rose plot shows a nearly round shape, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Salad Bowls. Converseley, 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 11% of the time (3 days each August) and blows offshore 54% of the time (10 days in an average August). During a typical August winds stronger than >40kph (25mph) are expected on 3 days at Salad Bowls

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