Lawrencetown Right Point Wind Stats

This image illustrates how often and how strongly the wind blows from different directions over a normal May. The biggest 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 3439 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2007, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Lawrencetown Right Point, located 22 km away (14 miles). There are not enough 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 Lawrencetown Right Point blows from the SSE. If the rose graph shows a fairly circular pattern, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Lawrencetown Right Point. By contrast, dominant spokes illustrate 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 May, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (pale blue) about 9% of the time (3 days each May) and blows offshore 30% of the time (9 days in an average May). Over an average May wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was predicted for only a single days at Lawrencetown Right Point

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