Old Woman Island - South Side Wind Stats

This picture shows how often and how strongly the wind blows from different directions over a normal 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 2880 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2007, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Old Woman Island - South Side, located 41 km away (25 miles). There are insufficient 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 prevailing wind at Old Woman Island - South Side blows from the ESE. If the rose plot shows a nearly round shape, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Old Woman Island - South Side. By contrast, dominant spokes represent favoured directions, and the more deep blue, the stronger the wind. Spokes point in the direction the wind blows from. During a typical April, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (the lightest shade of blue) about 7% of the time (2 days each April) and blows offshore 16% of the time (5 days in an average April). Over an average April winds stronger than >40kph (25mph) are expected on 3 days at Old Woman Island - South Side

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