Old Woman Island - South Side Wind Stats

The graph illustrates how frequently and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical June. The biggest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue implies the strength, with the strongest winds shown by dark blue. It is based on 2786 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Old Woman Island - South 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 prevailing wind at Old Woman Island - South Side blows from the ESE. If the rose graph shows a fairly circular pattern, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Old Woman Island - South Side. On the other hand, 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 June, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (the lightest shade of blue) about 9% of the time (3 days each June) and blows offshore 17% of the time (5 days in an average June). In a typical June winds stronger than >40kph (25mph) are expected on 2 days at Old Woman Island - South Side

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