Chandeleur Islands Wind Stats

The graph shows how commonly and how strongly the wind blows from different directions over a normal November. The biggest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue suggests the strength, with the strongest winds shown by dark blue. It is based on 3343 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Chandeleur Islands, located 23 km away (14 miles). There are not enough 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 prevailing wind at Chandeleur Islands blows from the SE. If the rose diagram shows a close to circular outline, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Chandeleur Islands. 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. During a typical November, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (the lightest shade of blue) about 6% of the time (2 days each November) and blows offshore 11% of the time (0 days in an average November). Over an average November wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was predicted for only a single days at Chandeleur Islands

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