Russell - Ocean Beach Wind Stats

The figure describes how commonly and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical June. The longest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue suggests the strength, with the strongest winds shown by the darkest shade of blue. It is based on 3266 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Russell - Ocean Beach, 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 dominant wind at Russell - Ocean Beach blows from the NNE. If the rose graph shows a fairly circular pattern, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Russell - Ocean Beach. Converseley, dominant spokes show 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 June, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (the lightest shade of blue) about 5% of the time (2 days each June) and blows offshore 26% of the time (1 days in an average June). During a typical June winds stronger than >40kph (25mph) are expected on 2 days at Russell - Ocean Beach

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