Country Club (African Beach) Wind Stats

The figure illustrates how often and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical November. The largest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue implies the strength, with dark blue showing the strongest winds. It is based on 3347 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Country Club (African Beach), located 20 km away (12 miles). There are too few recording stations world wide to use actual wind data. Invevitably some coastal places have very localized wind effects that would not be predicted by NWW3. According to the model, the prevailing wind at Country Club (African Beach) blows from the SE. If the rose plot shows a nearly round shape, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Country Club (African Beach). By contrast, 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 November, 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 November) and blows offshore 11% of the time (4 days in an average November). In a typical November wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was expected for only a single days at Country Club (African Beach)

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