Weld Road Wind Stats

The graph describes how often and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical October. The longest 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 dark blue. It is based on 3471 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Weld Road, located 56 km away (35 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 dominant wind at Weld Road blows from the WSW. If the rose plot shows a nearly round shape, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Weld Road. 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 October, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (light blue) about 4% of the time (1 days each October) and blows offshore just 18% of the time (6 days in an average October). In a typical October winds stronger than >40kph (25mph) are expected on 5 days at Weld Road

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