San Vicente Rivermouth Wind Stats

The rose diagram illustrates how commonly 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 indicates the strength, with dark blue strongest. It is based on 3422 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2007, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to San Vicente Rivermouth, located 15 km away (9 miles). There are too few recording stations world wide to use actual wind data. No doubt some coastal places have very localized wind effects that would not be predicted by NWW3. According to the model, the most common wind at San Vicente Rivermouth blows from the NW. If the rose graph shows a fairly circular pattern, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at San Vicente Rivermouth. By contrast, dominant spokes illustrate favoured directions, and the more deep 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 (light blue) about 22% of the time (7 days each May) and blows offshore 29% of the time (2 days in an average May). Over an average May wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was forecast for only a single days at San Vicente Rivermouth

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