Playa de Palombina Wind Stats

The figure describes how often and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical April. The longest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue suggests the strength, with dark blue strongest. It is based on 3360 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2007, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Playa de Palombina, located 22 km away (14 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 de Palombina blows from the NW. If the rose plot shows a nearly round shape, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Playa de Palombina. By contrast, dominant spokes illustrate 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 April, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (light blue) about 22% of the time (7 days each April) and blows offshore 42% of the time (2 days in an average April). During a typical April wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was predicted for only a single days at Playa de Palombina

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