Ter Heijde Wind Stats

This chart describes how frequently and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical July. The biggest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue suggests the strength, with the strongest winds shown by dark blue. It is based on 3449 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Ter Heijde, located 11 km away (7 miles). There are not enough 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 Ter Heijde blows from the NW. If the rose plot shows a nearly round shape, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Ter Heijde. 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. Over an average July, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (the lightest shade of blue) about 8% of the time (2 days each July) and blows offshore 17% of the time (2 days in an average July). During a typical July wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was predicted for only a single days at Ter Heijde

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