Faria Wind Stats

The graph describes how often and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical October. The longest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue suggests the strength, with deep blue strongest. It is based on 2976 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Faria, located 38 km away (24 miles). There are too few 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 dominant wind at Faria blows from the SW. If the rose plot shows a nearly round shape, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Faria. By contrast, 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 (pale blue) about 22% of the time (7 days each October) and blows offshore 30% of the time (0 days in an average October). In a typical October wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was predicted for only a single days at Faria

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