La Baie Des Sables Wind Stats

The figure shows how frequently and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical May. The largest 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 dark blue. It is based on 3440 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2007, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to La Baie Des Sables, located 17 km away (11 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 most common wind at La Baie Des Sables blows from the W. If the rose graph shows a fairly circular pattern, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at La Baie Des Sables. On the other hand, dominant spokes represent favoured directions, and the more deep 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 (the lightest shade of blue) about 8% of the time (2 days each May) and blows offshore 41% of the time (12 days in an average May). In a typical May wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was predicted for only a single days at La Baie Des Sables

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