Delaware Bay Point Wind Stats

This picture illustrates how often and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical October. The biggest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue suggests the strength, with the darkest shade of blue strongest. It is based on 2480 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2008, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Delaware Bay Point, located 18 km away (11 miles). There are too few 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 Delaware Bay Point blows from the NW. If the rose graph shows a fairly circular pattern, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Delaware Bay Point. Converseley, 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. Over an average October, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (the lightest shade of blue) about 13% of the time (4 days each October) and blows offshore 29% of the time (2 days in an average October). In a typical October winds stronger than >40kph (25mph) are expected on 2 days at Delaware Bay Point

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