Caravan Park/Lamberts Bay Wind Stats

The rose diagram illustrates how commonly and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical June. The longest 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 dark blue. It is based on 3266 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Caravan Park/Lamberts Bay, located 31 km away (19 miles). There are not enough 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 prevailing wind at Caravan Park/Lamberts Bay blows from the SW. If the rose plot shows a nearly round shape, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Caravan Park/Lamberts Bay. By contrast, dominant spokes illustrate favoured directions, and the more dark blue, the stronger the wind. Spokes point in the direction the wind blows from. Over an average June, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (the lightest shade of blue) about 14% of the time (4 days each June) and blows offshore 40% of the time (12 days in an average June). During a typical June winds stronger than >40kph (25mph) are expected on 2 days at Caravan Park/Lamberts Bay

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