Fort Fisher Wind Stats

This chart illustrates how commonly and how strongly the wind blows from different directions over a normal April. 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 2880 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2007, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Fort Fisher, located 43 km away (27 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 Fort Fisher blows from the ENE. If the rose diagram shows a close to circular outline, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Fort Fisher. On the other hand, dominant spokes represent favoured directions, and the more dark blue, the stronger the wind. Spokes point in the direction the wind blows from. During a typical April, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (light blue) about 2% of the time (1 days each April) and blows offshore just 7% of the time (0 days in an average April). Over an average April wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was predicted for only a single days at Fort Fisher

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