Peña Rosa Wind Stats

This chart shows how commonly 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 implies the strength, with dark blue strongest. It is based on 3107 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Peña Rosa, located 26 km away (16 miles). There are insufficient 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 dominant wind at Peña Rosa blows from the SSW. If the rose plot shows a nearly round shape, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Peña Rosa. On the other hand, dominant spokes show favoured directions, and the more deep 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 (pale blue) about 1.0% of the time (0 days each November) and blows offshore just 1.2% of the time (0 days in an average November). In a typical November winds exceeding >40kph (25mph) are not expected, but 0 have winds on the range 30-40 (19-25) at Peña Rosa

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