Galveston-61st Street Pier Wind Stats

The rose diagram illustrates how frequently and how strongly the wind blows from different directions over a normal April. The longest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue suggests the strength, with the strongest winds shown by the darkest shade of blue. It is based on 3119 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2007, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Galveston-61st Street Pier, located 35 km away (22 miles). There are too few 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 dominant wind at Galveston-61st Street Pier blows from the SE. If the rose graph shows a fairly circular pattern, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Galveston-61st Street Pier. On the other hand, dominant spokes represent favoured directions, and the more dark 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 6% of the time (2 days each April) and blows offshore 16% of the time (2 days in an average April). Over an average April wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was predicted for only a single days at Galveston-61st Street Pier

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