Coffs Harbour-North Wall Wind Stats

This chart describes how often and how strongly the wind blows from different directions over a normal July. The longest 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 3472 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Coffs Harbour-North Wall, located 35 km away (22 miles). There are insufficient 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 most common wind at Coffs Harbour-North Wall blows from the SE. If the rose graph shows a fairly circular pattern, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Coffs Harbour-North Wall. On the other hand, dominant spokes illustrate favoured directions, and the more dark blue, the stronger the wind. Spokes point in the direction the wind blows from. During a typical July, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (the lightest shade of blue) about 10% of the time (3 days each July) and blows offshore 56% of the time (17 days in an average July). Over an average July winds stronger than >40kph (25mph) are expected on 2 days at Coffs Harbour-North Wall

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