Cullen Wind Stats

The rose diagram describes how often and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical October. 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 deep blue. It is based on 2973 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Cullen, located 35 km away (22 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 Cullen blows from the NNE. If the rose diagram shows a close to circular outline, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Cullen. On the other hand, 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 October, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (the lightest shade of blue) about 3% of the time (1 days each October) and blows offshore just 12% of the time (1 days in an average October). In a typical October wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was predicted for only a single days at Cullen

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