Otago Peninsula - Boulder Beach Wind Stats

This picture shows how often and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical April. The largest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue suggests the strength, with deep blue showing the strongest winds. It is based on 3360 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2007, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Otago Peninsula - Boulder Beach, located 14 km away (9 miles). There are insufficient recording stations world wide to use actual wind data. Invevitably some coastal places have very localized wind effects that would not be predicted by NWW3. According to the model, the prevailing wind at Otago Peninsula - Boulder Beach blows from the S. If the rose graph shows a fairly circular pattern, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Otago Peninsula - Boulder Beach. By contrast, dominant spokes illustrate 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 April, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (pale blue) about 12% of the time (4 days each April) and blows offshore 35% of the time (10 days in an average April). During a typical April winds stronger than >40kph (25mph) are expected on 3 days at Otago Peninsula - Boulder Beach

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