Wansbeck Estuary Wind Stats

The rose diagram illustrates how often and how strongly the wind blows from different directions over a normal August. The longest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue suggests the strength, with deep blue strongest. It is based on 3472 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Wansbeck Estuary, located 37 km away (23 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 Wansbeck Estuary blows from the NNE. If the rose graph shows a fairly circular pattern, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Wansbeck Estuary. 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. During a typical August, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (pale blue) about 7% of the time (2 days each August) and blows offshore 29% of the time (1 days in an average August). Over an average August wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was predicted for only a single days at Wansbeck Estuary

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