Garbage Dump Wind Stats

The rose diagram illustrates how often and how strongly the wind blows from different directions over a normal August. The longest 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 3472 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Garbage Dump, located 30 km away (19 miles). There are not enough recording stations world wide to use actual wind data. No doubt some coastal places have very localized wind effects that would not be predicted by NWW3. According to the model, the most common wind at Garbage Dump blows from the SW. If the rose graph shows a fairly circular pattern, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Garbage Dump. On the other hand, dominant spokes show favoured directions, and the more deep blue, the stronger the wind. Spokes point in the direction the wind blows from. During a typical August, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (pale blue) about 12% of the time (4 days each August) and blows offshore 31% of the time (10 days in an average August). Over an average August wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was predicted for only a single days at Garbage Dump

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