Cabo Colonet Wind Stats

The graph describes how often and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical April. The largest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue indicates the strength, with deep blue strongest. It is based on 3360 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2007, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Cabo Colonet, 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 Cabo Colonet blows from the W. If the rose plot shows a nearly round shape, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Cabo Colonet. Converseley, dominant spokes illustrate favoured directions, and the more dark blue, the stronger the wind. Spokes point in the direction the wind blows from. Over an average April, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (light blue) about 8% of the time (2 days each April) and blows offshore 9% of the time (3 days in an average April). In a typical April wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was forecast for only a single days at Cabo Colonet

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