El Huerto Wind Stats

The graph shows how commonly 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 suggests the strength, with deep blue showing the strongest winds. It is based on 2880 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2007, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to El Huerto, located 8 km away (5 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 El Huerto blows from the NW. If the rose diagram shows a close to circular outline, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at El Huerto. By contrast, dominant spokes represent favoured directions, and the more the darkest shade of 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 21% of the time (6 days each April) and blows offshore 41% of the time (12 days in an average April). In a typical April wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was predicted for only a single days at El Huerto

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