Noosa - Alexandria Bay Wind Stats

This picture describes how often and how strongly the wind blows from different directions over a normal May. The biggest 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 3440 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2007, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Noosa - Alexandria Bay, located 40 km away (25 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 Noosa - Alexandria Bay blows from the SSE. If the rose plot shows a nearly round shape, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Noosa - Alexandria Bay. By contrast, dominant spokes illustrate favoured directions, and the more dark blue, the stronger the wind. Spokes point in the direction the wind blows from. During a typical May, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (the lightest shade of blue) about 2% of the time (1 days each May) and blows offshore just 8% of the time (2 days in an average May). Over an average May winds stronger than >40kph (25mph) are expected on 2 days at Noosa - Alexandria Bay

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