Boca Raton Inlet Wind Stats

The rose diagram illustrates how often and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical October. The biggest 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 the darkest shade of blue. It is based on 3471 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Boca Raton Inlet, located 19 km away (12 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 Boca Raton Inlet blows from the NE. If the rose plot shows a nearly round shape, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Boca Raton Inlet. On the other hand, 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 October, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (the lightest shade of blue) about 10% of the time (3 days each October) and blows offshore 20% of the time (1 days in an average October). In a typical October wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was forecast for only a single days at Boca Raton Inlet

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