Bouncer Beach Wind Stats

The rose diagram shows how often and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical May. The largest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue indicates the strength, with dark blue showing the strongest winds. It is based on 3440 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2007, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Bouncer Beach, located 41 km away (25 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 dominant wind at Bouncer Beach blows from the SSW. If the rose plot shows a nearly round shape, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Bouncer Beach. On the other hand, dominant spokes represent favoured directions, and the more deep blue, the stronger the wind. Spokes point in the direction the wind blows from. Over an average May, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (the lightest shade of blue) about 0.6% of the time (0 days each May) and blows offshore just 2% of the time (1 days in an average May). In a typical May wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was forecast for only a single days at Bouncer Beach

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