Banks Peninsula - Gough Bay Wind Stats

This picture 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 the strongest winds shown by deep blue. It is based on 3120 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2007, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Banks Peninsula - Gough Bay, located 23 km away (14 miles). There are too few recording stations world wide to use actual wind data. Without question some coastal places have very localized wind effects that would not be predicted by NWW3. According to the model, the dominant wind at Banks Peninsula - Gough Bay blows from the ESE. If the rose plot shows a nearly round shape, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Banks Peninsula - Gough Bay. Converseley, dominant spokes illustrate favoured directions, and the more deep 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 7% of the time (2 days each April) and blows offshore 19% of the time (6 days in an average April). In a typical April wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was expected for only a single days at Banks Peninsula - Gough Bay

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