Playa Icacos Wind Stats

This chart describes how often and how strongly the wind blows from different directions over a normal May. The biggest 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 3398 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2007, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Playa Icacos, located 27 km away (17 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 prevailing wind at Playa Icacos blows from the SSW. If the rose plot shows a nearly round shape, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Playa Icacos. By contrast, dominant spokes show favoured directions, and the more the darkest shade of blue, the stronger the wind. Spokes point in the direction the wind blows from. During a typical May, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (the lightest shade of blue) about 53% of the time (16 days each May) and blows offshore 59% of the time (18 days in an average May). Over an average May winds exceeding >40kph (25mph) are not expected, but 0 have winds on the range 30-40 (19-25) at Playa Icacos

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