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Van Riebeek Wind Stats

Wind Stats

(% offshore)

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(any wind direction)

This chart shows how often and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical March. The longest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue indicates the strength, with the strongest winds shown by dark blue. It is based on 3460 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2007, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Van Riebeek, located 47 km away (29 miles). There are insufficient 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 dominant wind at Van Riebeek blows from the SW. If the rose diagram shows a close to circular outline, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Van Riebeek. By contrast, dominant spokes show favoured directions, and the more dark blue, the stronger the wind. Spokes point in the direction the wind blows from. Over an average March, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (the lightest shade of blue) about 8% of the time (2 days each March) and blows offshore 11% of the time (4 days in an average March). In a typical March winds stronger than >40kph (25mph) are expected on 3 days at Van Riebeek

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