Cheynes Point Wind Stats

The rose diagram shows how commonly and how strongly the wind blows from different directions over a normal April. The largest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue suggests the strength, with deep blue showing the strongest winds. It is based on 3360 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2007, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Cheynes Point, located 61 km away (38 miles). There are too few 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 Cheynes Point blows from the S. If the rose plot shows a nearly round shape, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Cheynes Point. On the other hand, dominant spokes illustrate favoured directions, and the more deep blue, the stronger the wind. Spokes point in the direction the wind blows from. During a typical April, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (light blue) about 9% of the time (3 days each April) and blows offshore 33% of the time (10 days in an average April). Over an average April wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was predicted for only a single days at Cheynes Point

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