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Playa Blanca - Lota Wind Stats

Wind Stats

(% offshore)

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The rose diagram shows how commonly 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 suggests the strength, with the strongest winds shown by dark blue. It is based on 3394 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2007, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Playa Blanca - Lota, located 89 km away (55 miles). There are not enough 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 Playa Blanca - Lota blows from the WSW. If the rose graph shows a fairly circular pattern, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Playa Blanca - Lota. 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. Over an average March, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (the lightest shade of blue) about 8% of the time (2 days each March) and blows offshore 84% of the time (26 days in an average March). During a typical March winds stronger than >40kph (25mph) are expected on 6 days at Playa Blanca - Lota

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