Golf Course Reef Wind Stats

The figure illustrates how often and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical April. The biggest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue implies the strength, with deep blue showing the strongest winds. It is based on 3120 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2007, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Golf Course Reef, located 19 km away (12 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 prevailing wind at Golf Course Reef blows from the SE. If the rose diagram shows a close to circular outline, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Golf Course Reef. By contrast, dominant spokes show favoured directions, and the more dark 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 (pale blue) about 13% of the time (4 days each April) and blows offshore 33% of the time (10 days in an average April). In a typical April wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was expected for only a single days at Golf Course Reef

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