Stamco Wind Stats

The rose diagram illustrates how commonly and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical 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 showing the strongest winds. It is based on 3355 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2007, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Stamco, located 39 km away (24 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 dominant wind at Stamco blows from the WSW. If the rose graph shows a fairly circular pattern, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Stamco. On the other hand, dominant spokes represent favoured directions, and the more deep 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 9% of the time (3 days each April) and blows offshore 44% of the time (9 days in an average April). During a typical April winds stronger than >40kph (25mph) are expected on 2 days at Stamco

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