Gold Beach/South Park/Hunter Creek Wind Stats

This picture illustrates how often and how strongly the wind blows from different directions over a normal June. The biggest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue implies the strength, with the strongest winds shown by dark blue. It is based on 3266 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Gold Beach/South Park/Hunter Creek, located 12 km away (7 miles). There are not enough 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 dominant wind at Gold Beach/South Park/Hunter Creek blows from the W. If the rose graph shows a fairly circular pattern, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Gold Beach/South Park/Hunter Creek. Converseley, dominant spokes show favoured directions, and the more deep blue, the stronger the wind. Spokes point in the direction the wind blows from. During a typical June, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (pale blue) about 10% of the time (3 days each June) and blows offshore 15% of the time (4 days in an average June). Over an average June wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was expected for only a single days at Gold Beach/South Park/Hunter Creek

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