Bunatrahir Bay Wind Stats

The graph shows how commonly 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 indicates the strength, with dark blue showing the strongest winds. It is based on 3574 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Bunatrahir Bay, located 24 km away (15 miles). There are insufficient recording stations world wide to use actual wind data. No doubt some coastal places have very localized wind effects that would not be predicted by NWW3. According to the model, the dominant wind at Bunatrahir Bay blows from the NW. If the rose graph shows a fairly circular pattern, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Bunatrahir Bay. By contrast, dominant spokes represent 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 3% of the time (1 days each August) and blows offshore just 17% of the time (4 days in an average August). During a typical August wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was forecast for only a single days at Bunatrahir Bay

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