Shipwreck Bay-Blue House Wind Stats

This picture shows how often and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical June. The longest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue suggests the strength, with the strongest winds shown by deep blue. It is based on 3266 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Shipwreck Bay-Blue House, located 20 km away (12 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 most common wind at Shipwreck Bay-Blue House blows from the SW. If the rose plot shows a nearly round shape, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Shipwreck Bay-Blue House. Converseley, dominant spokes illustrate favoured directions, and the more deep 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 (pale blue) about 6% of the time (2 days each June) and blows offshore 47% of the time (14 days in an average June). During a typical June winds stronger than >40kph (25mph) are expected on 5 days at Shipwreck Bay-Blue House

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