Van Stadens Mouth Wind Stats

This image 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 indicates the strength, with dark blue showing the strongest winds. It is based on 3360 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2007, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Van Stadens Mouth, located 23 km away (14 miles). There are not enough 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 most common wind at Van Stadens Mouth blows from the S. If the rose graph shows a fairly circular pattern, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Van Stadens Mouth. 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. During a typical April, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (light blue) about 15% of the time (4 days each April) and blows offshore 37% of the time (11 days in an average April). Over an average April winds stronger than >40kph (25mph) are expected on 2 days at Van Stadens Mouth

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