Friendly Beaches Wind Stats

The rose diagram shows how commonly and how strongly the wind blows from different directions over a normal October. The largest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue indicates the strength, with the darkest shade of blue showing the strongest winds. It is based on 3223 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Friendly Beaches, located 18 km away (11 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 Friendly Beaches blows from the ENE. If the rose graph shows a fairly circular pattern, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Friendly Beaches. By contrast, dominant spokes represent favoured directions, and the more the darkest shade of blue, the stronger the wind. Spokes point in the direction the wind blows from. During a typical October, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (the lightest shade of blue) about 2% of the time (1 days each October) and blows offshore just 13% of the time (4 days in an average October). Over an average October wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was forecast for only a single days at Friendly Beaches

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