Cantao da Praia Grande Wind Stats

The figure describes how often and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical July. The largest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue implies the strength, with deep blue showing the strongest winds. It is based on 3720 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Cantao da Praia Grande, located 30 km away (19 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 prevailing wind at Cantao da Praia Grande blows from the SE. If the rose graph shows a fairly circular pattern, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Cantao da Praia Grande. 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 (light blue) about 11% of the time (3 days each July) and blows offshore 25% of the time (8 days in an average July). In a typical July wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was expected for only a single days at Cantao da Praia Grande

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