Mahomets Back Beach Wind Stats

The figure describes how often and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical October. The biggest 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 3471 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Mahomets Back Beach, located 25 km away (16 miles). There are insufficient recording stations world wide to use actual wind data. Without question some coastal places have very localized wind effects that would not be predicted by NWW3. According to the model, the most common wind at Mahomets Back Beach blows from the SW. If the rose graph shows a fairly circular pattern, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Mahomets Back Beach. By contrast, dominant spokes illustrate 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 October, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (light blue) about 3% of the time (1 days each October) and blows offshore just 8% of the time (2 days in an average October). During a typical October winds stronger than >40kph (25mph) are expected on 3 days at Mahomets Back Beach

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