Kennington Cove Wind Stats

The rose diagram shows how often and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical September. The biggest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue suggests the strength, with dark blue strongest. It is based on 3360 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Kennington Cove, located 42 km away (26 miles). There are insufficient 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 dominant wind at Kennington Cove blows from the ESE. If the rose graph shows a fairly circular pattern, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Kennington Cove. Converseley, dominant spokes represent favoured directions, and the more deep blue, the stronger the wind. Spokes point in the direction the wind blows from. Over an average September, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (pale blue) about 3% of the time (1 days each September) and blows offshore just 15% of the time (4 days in an average September). During a typical September wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was predicted for only a single days at Kennington Cove

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