Las Peñas Wind Stats

This chart describes how commonly and how strongly the wind blows from different directions over a normal June. The longest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue suggests the strength, with deep blue showing the strongest winds. It is based on 3506 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Las Peñas, located 60 km away (37 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 Las Peñas blows from the NW. If the rose graph shows a fairly circular pattern, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Las Peñas. 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 June, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (the lightest shade of blue) about 0% of the time (0 days each June) and blows offshore just 0.4% of the time (0 days in an average June). Over an average June wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was predicted for only a single days at Las Peñas

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