Plouharnel La Guerite Tata Beach Wind Stats

The graph illustrates how often and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical October. The largest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue implies the strength, with the strongest winds shown by the darkest shade of blue. It is based on 3471 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Plouharnel La Guerite Tata Beach, located 29 km away (18 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 most common wind at Plouharnel La Guerite Tata Beach blows from the W. If the rose diagram shows a close to circular outline, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Plouharnel La Guerite Tata Beach. 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 (the lightest shade of blue) about 9% of the time (3 days each October) and blows offshore 35% of the time (10 days in an average October). During a typical October winds stronger than >40kph (25mph) are expected on 2 days at Plouharnel La Guerite Tata Beach

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