Merewether - Ladies Wind Stats

This chart describes how frequently and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical July. The longest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue implies the strength, with dark blue strongest. It is based on 3472 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Merewether - Ladies, located 22 km away (14 miles). There are not enough 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 prevailing wind at Merewether - Ladies blows from the ESE. If the rose graph shows a fairly circular pattern, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Merewether - Ladies. By contrast, dominant spokes represent 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 July, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (the lightest shade of blue) about 5% of the time (2 days each July) and blows offshore 35% of the time (11 days in an average July). In a typical July wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was expected for only a single days at Merewether - Ladies

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