Little Swanport Wind Stats

The figure describes how commonly and how strongly the wind blows from different directions over a normal May. The largest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue implies the strength, with the darkest shade of blue strongest. It is based on 3440 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2007, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Little Swanport, located 77 km away (48 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 dominant wind at Little Swanport blows from the SSE. If the rose graph shows a fairly circular pattern, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Little Swanport. On the other hand, 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 10% of the time (3 days each May) and blows offshore 49% of the time (14 days in an average May). Over an average May winds stronger than >40kph (25mph) are expected on 2 days at Little Swanport

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