Khalaktyrsky Beach Wind Stats

This image illustrates how often and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical April. The largest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue indicates the strength, with dark blue showing the strongest winds. It is based on 3360 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2007, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Khalaktyrsky Beach, located 9 km away (6 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 dominant wind at Khalaktyrsky Beach 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 Khalaktyrsky Beach. By contrast, dominant spokes represent favoured directions, and the more dark blue, the stronger the wind. Spokes point in the direction the wind blows from. Over an average April, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (the lightest shade of blue) about 22% of the time (7 days each April) and blows offshore 48% of the time (11 days in an average April). During a typical April wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was forecast for only a single days at Khalaktyrsky Beach

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