Old Woman Island - North Side Wind Stats

This picture describes how often and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical November. The largest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue implies the strength, with dark blue showing the strongest winds. It is based on 2867 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Old Woman Island - North Side, located 41 km away (25 miles). There are not enough 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 Old Woman Island - North Side blows from the E. If the rose diagram shows a close to circular outline, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Old Woman Island - North Side. By contrast, 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 3% of the time (1 days each November) and blows offshore just 5% of the time (2 days in an average November). During a typical November wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was expected for only a single days at Old Woman Island - North Side

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