Ile d'Oleron - Vert Bois/Les Allassins Wind Stats

The rose diagram illustrates how commonly and how strongly the wind blows from different directions over a normal July. The biggest 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 2976 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Ile d'Oleron - Vert Bois/Les Allassins, located 23 km away (14 miles). There are too few 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 Ile d'Oleron - Vert Bois/Les Allassins blows from the W. If the rose graph shows a fairly circular pattern, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Ile d'Oleron - Vert Bois/Les Allassins. By contrast, dominant spokes show favoured directions, and the more dark blue, the stronger the wind. Spokes point in the direction the wind blows from. During a typical July, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (the lightest shade of blue) about 12% of the time (4 days each July) and blows offshore 31% of the time (9 days in an average July). Over an average July wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was predicted for only a single days at Ile d'Oleron - Vert Bois/Les Allassins

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