Faro de Trafalgar Wind Stats

This image shows how frequently 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 suggests the strength, with dark blue showing the strongest winds. It is based on 2976 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Faro de Trafalgar, located 21 km away (13 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 dominant wind at Faro de Trafalgar blows from the W. If the rose plot shows a nearly round shape, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Faro de Trafalgar. On the other hand, dominant spokes illustrate favoured directions, and the more deep 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 25% of the time (7 days in an average October). In a typical October wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was predicted for only a single days at Faro de Trafalgar

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