Wallaga Rivermouth Wind Stats

This chart shows how often and how strongly the wind blows from different directions over a normal July. The largest 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 deep blue. It is based on 3472 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Wallaga Rivermouth, located 40 km away (25 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 Wallaga Rivermouth blows from the SE. If the rose graph shows a fairly circular pattern, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Wallaga Rivermouth. On the other hand, dominant spokes show favoured directions, and the more deep blue, the stronger the wind. Spokes point in the direction the wind blows from. During a typical July, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (pale blue) about 9% of the time (3 days each July) and blows offshore 38% of the time (11 days in an average July). Over an average July winds stronger than >40kph (25mph) are expected on 2 days at Wallaga Rivermouth

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