St Jean de Luz - Socoa Wind Stats

The graph shows how commonly and how strongly the wind blows from different directions over a normal April. The biggest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue suggests the strength, with deep blue strongest. It is based on 3360 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2007, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to St Jean de Luz - Socoa, located 28 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 dominant wind at St Jean de Luz - Socoa blows from the NW. If the rose diagram shows a close to circular outline, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at St Jean de Luz - Socoa. Converseley, 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 (pale blue) about 20% of the time (6 days each April) and blows offshore 41% of the time (2 days in an average April). Over an average April wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was predicted for only a single days at St Jean de Luz - Socoa

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