Redondo - The Breakwater Wind Stats

The rose diagram illustrates how commonly and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical December. The biggest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue suggests the strength, with the darkest shade of blue showing the strongest winds. It is based on 3448 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Redondo - The Breakwater, located 40 km away (25 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 prevailing wind at Redondo - The Breakwater blows from the W. If the rose diagram shows a close to circular outline, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Redondo - The Breakwater. Converseley, dominant spokes show 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 December, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (light blue) about 26% of the time (8 days each December) and blows offshore 39% of the time (2 days in an average December). During a typical December wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was predicted for only a single days at Redondo - The Breakwater

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