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Banks Peninsula - Gough Bay Wind Stats

Wind Stats

(% offshore)

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The rose diagram illustrates how often and how strongly the wind blows from different directions over a normal March. The biggest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue indicates the strength, with deep blue showing the strongest winds. It is based on 3212 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2007, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Banks Peninsula - Gough Bay, located 23 km away (14 miles). There are not enough 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 Banks Peninsula - Gough Bay blows from the ESE. If the rose plot shows a nearly round shape, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Banks Peninsula - Gough Bay. By contrast, dominant spokes show favoured directions, and the more the darkest shade of blue, the stronger the wind. Spokes point in the direction the wind blows from. During a typical March, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (light blue) about 7% of the time (2 days each March) and blows offshore 19% of the time (6 days in an average March). Over an average March wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was forecast for only a single days at Banks Peninsula - Gough Bay

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