Port Mansfield Jetty Wind Stats

The figure illustrates how commonly and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical April. The biggest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue implies the strength, with the strongest winds shown by deep blue. It is based on 3360 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2007, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Port Mansfield Jetty, located 29 km away (18 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 dominant wind at Port Mansfield Jetty blows from the ESE. If the rose diagram shows a close to circular outline, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Port Mansfield Jetty. Converseley, 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. Over an average April, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (the lightest shade of blue) about 3% of the time (1 days each April) and blows offshore just 8% of the time (2 days in an average April). During a typical April winds stronger than >40kph (25mph) are expected on 2 days at Port Mansfield Jetty

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