El Bolsillo Wind Stats

This picture shows how commonly and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical April. 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 the darkest shade of blue. It is based on 2639 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2007, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to El Bolsillo, located 5 km away (3 miles). There are too few recording stations world wide to use actual wind data. Without question some coastal places have very localized wind effects that would not be predicted by NWW3. According to the model, the most common wind at El Bolsillo blows from the NE. If the rose graph shows a fairly circular pattern, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at El Bolsillo. By contrast, 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 April, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (the lightest shade of blue) about 6% of the time (2 days each April) and blows offshore 6% of the time (0 days in an average April). In a typical April winds stronger than >40kph (25mph) are expected on 2 days at El Bolsillo

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