Castlepoint Beach Wind Stats

This picture illustrates how commonly and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical November. The longest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue suggests the strength, with the darkest shade of blue strongest. It is based on 3347 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Castlepoint Beach, located 26 km away (16 miles). There are too few recording stations world wide to use actual wind data. Invevitably some coastal places have very localized wind effects that would not be predicted by NWW3. According to the model, the most common wind at Castlepoint Beach blows from the E. If the rose graph shows a fairly circular pattern, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Castlepoint 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 November, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (pale blue) about 3% of the time (1 days each November) and blows offshore just 10% of the time (0 days in an average November). During a typical November wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was predicted for only a single days at Castlepoint Beach

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