Opoutere Beach Wind Stats

This image shows how commonly and how strongly the wind blows from different directions over a normal April. 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 the darkest shade of blue. It is based on 2880 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2007, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Opoutere Beach, located 16 km away (10 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 most common wind at Opoutere Beach blows from the ENE. If the rose plot shows a nearly round shape, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Opoutere Beach. On the other hand, dominant spokes show 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 13% of the time (4 days each April) and blows offshore 42% of the time (3 days in an average April). Over an average April wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was forecast for only a single days at Opoutere Beach

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