Mariakerke Wind Stats

This picture illustrates how commonly 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 deep blue showing the strongest winds. It is based on 3411 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2007, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Mariakerke, located 37 km away (23 miles). There are too few recording stations world wide to use actual wind data. No doubt some coastal places have very localized wind effects that would not be predicted by NWW3. According to the model, the prevailing wind at Mariakerke blows from the N. If the rose graph shows a fairly circular pattern, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Mariakerke. By contrast, dominant spokes illustrate 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 (pale blue) about 7% of the time (2 days each May) and blows offshore 15% of the time (0 days in an average May). In a typical May wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was predicted for only a single days at Mariakerke

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