Gonubie Reef (The Lefts) Wind Stats

This chart describes how commonly and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical May. The longest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue suggests the strength, with the darkest shade of blue showing the strongest winds. It is based on 3192 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2007, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Gonubie Reef (The Lefts), located 19 km away (12 miles). There are too few recording stations world wide to use actual wind data. Without question some coastal places have very localized wind effects that would not be predicted by NWW3. According to the model, the most common wind at Gonubie Reef (The Lefts) blows from the S. If the rose plot shows a nearly round shape, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Gonubie Reef (The Lefts). Converseley, 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 May, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (light blue) about 14% of the time (4 days each May) and blows offshore 34% of the time (11 days in an average May). In a typical May wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was predicted for only a single days at Gonubie Reef (The Lefts)

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