Roca Puta Wind Stats

This chart describes how commonly and how strongly the wind blows from different directions over a normal November. The largest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue indicates the strength, with the strongest winds shown by the darkest shade of blue. It is based on 3347 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Roca Puta, located 28 km away (17 miles). There are too few 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 Roca Puta blows from the NW. If the rose graph shows a fairly circular pattern, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Roca Puta. Converseley, dominant spokes represent favoured directions, and the more deep blue, the stronger the wind. Spokes point in the direction the wind blows from. During a typical November, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (the lightest shade of blue) about 14% of the time (4 days each November) and blows offshore 44% of the time (13 days in an average November). Over an average November winds stronger than >40kph (25mph) are expected on 4 days at Roca Puta

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