Hossegor - Les Culs Nuls Wind Stats

The graph describes how often and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical November. 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 3347 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Hossegor - Les Culs Nuls, located 37 km away (23 miles). There are too few 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 most common wind at Hossegor - Les Culs Nuls blows from the WNW. If the rose plot shows a nearly round shape, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Hossegor - Les Culs Nuls. On the other hand, dominant spokes show favoured directions, and the more the darkest shade of blue, the stronger the wind. Spokes point in the direction the wind blows from. Over an average November, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (the lightest shade of blue) about 11% of the time (3 days each November) and blows offshore 36% of the time (11 days in an average November). During a typical November winds stronger than >40kph (25mph) are expected on 4 days at Hossegor - Les Culs Nuls

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