Le Goudoul Wind Stats

This chart illustrates how often and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical September. The longest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue implies the strength, with the darkest shade of blue showing the strongest winds. It is based on 3360 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Le Goudoul, located 31 km away (19 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 most common wind at Le Goudoul blows from the W. If the rose plot shows a nearly round shape, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Le Goudoul. On the other hand, dominant spokes show favoured directions, and the more dark 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 10% of the time (3 days each September) and blows offshore 27% of the time (8 days in an average September). In a typical September wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was expected for only a single days at Le Goudoul

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