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Mindelo Wind Stats

Wind Stats

(% offshore)

All Swells

(any wind direction)

The figure illustrates how often and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical March. The longest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue indicates the strength, with deep blue strongest. It is based on 3460 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2007, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Mindelo, located 31 km away (19 miles). There are not enough 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 dominant wind at Mindelo blows from the WNW. If the rose diagram shows a close to circular outline, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Mindelo. 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 March, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (pale blue) about 17% of the time (5 days each March) and blows offshore 40% of the time (12 days in an average March). During a typical March winds stronger than >40kph (25mph) are expected on 2 days at Mindelo

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