Tainohama Wind Stats

The figure illustrates how often and how strongly the wind blows from different directions over a normal June. The biggest 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 Tainohama, located 28 km away (17 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 Tainohama blows from the S. If the rose graph shows a fairly circular pattern, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Tainohama. On the other hand, 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. During a typical June, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (pale blue) about 18% of the time (5 days each June) and blows offshore 30% of the time (9 days in an average June). Over an average June wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was predicted for only a single days at Tainohama

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