Arbroath Wind Stats

This picture describes how commonly and how strongly the wind blows from different directions over a normal September. The biggest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue suggests the strength, with dark blue showing the strongest winds. It is based on 3359 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Arbroath, located 8 km away (5 miles). There are not enough recording stations world wide to use actual wind data. Invevitably some coastal places have very localized wind effects that would not be predicted by NWW3. According to the model, the dominant wind at Arbroath blows from the NNE. If the rose plot shows a nearly round shape, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Arbroath. On the other hand, dominant spokes represent 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 September, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (pale blue) about 4% of the time (1 days each September) and blows offshore just 18% of the time (1 days in an average September). Over an average September wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was predicted for only a single days at Arbroath

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