Magnets Wind Stats

This chart illustrates how often and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical May. The largest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue indicates the strength, with the strongest winds shown by dark blue. It is based on 3165 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2008, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Magnets, located 13 km away (8 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 prevailing wind at Magnets 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 Magnets. On the other hand, 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 May, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (the lightest shade of blue) about 25% of the time (8 days each May) and blows offshore 42% of the time (6 days in an average May). In a typical May winds stronger than >40kph (25mph) are expected on 2 days at Magnets

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