Old Woman Island - South Side Wind Stats

The rose diagram illustrates how often and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical July. The largest 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 Old Woman Island - South Side, located 41 km away (25 miles). There are insufficient 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 Old Woman Island - South Side blows from the ESE. If the rose graph shows a fairly circular pattern, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Old Woman Island - South Side. On the other hand, dominant spokes illustrate favoured directions, and the more deep blue, the stronger the wind. Spokes point in the direction the wind blows from. Over an average July, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (pale blue) about 7% of the time (2 days each July) and blows offshore 22% of the time (7 days in an average July). During a typical July winds stronger than >40kph (25mph) are expected on 2 days at Old Woman Island - South Side

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